From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mike Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: OT: emacs-style variables (etc) in the headers? Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2005 23:00:55 GMT Message-ID: References: <1cXzd.3978$Rb3.3396@fe07.lga> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1104793134 20764 80.91.229.6 (3 Jan 2005 22:58:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 22:58:54 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 03 23:58:47 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Clb9z-0007mk-00 for ; Mon, 03 Jan 2005 23:58:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1ClbL9-0006DY-Mk for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Jan 2005 18:10:19 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!peer01.cox.net!cox.net!hwmnpeer01.lga!hwmedia!hw-poster!fe07.lga.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs Original-Followup-To: comp.emacs User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.4 (Linux) Original-Lines: 27 Original-X-Trace: pikkdiabbdefphapohoefogfccnjbjggfoimoiecinfimambmpcikphidmjlhdnllmgobgdicjfaaahjnafhfilkilnaeogedceidlljhdgjkaibjlfnigiiejhapoalbcfagklmibllijll Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2005 16:00:55 MST Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:127653 comp.emacs:87515 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:23120 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:23120 In article , Stefan Monnier wrote: >> I've looked at cfengine and though I like several things it does, >> there are a few things I don't like, so I'm writing my own (just >> like every other programmer). What I've come up with is something >> like rpm spec files where I'm looking for a beginning tag (in this >> case the tag is /^%uconfig file configuration/) and an ending tag >> (/^%done/). Between these tags can fall five other tags: %pre, >> %post, %inst, %doc, %always. The %pre is done before anything else, >> the %post is done after the file is copied, the %always is always >> done, the %doc is for documentation, and the %inst is a custom way >> to copy the file (like /etc/syslog.conf) instead of using the default >> (which copies /etc/syslog.conf :). I have a few other bits of >> syntactic sugar in different places to make it all work. > >> I'm nearing the end of testing and will soon roll it to my server >> farm. > >> What do you think? > > What is the question? > > > Stefan "still not reading comp.emacs religiously" The question was in the original post that you trimmed. Mike