From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "Alan E. Davis" <lngndvs@gmail.com>, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: RE: Creating automatic filename stamps
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2018 12:45:23 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d13b9ebc-38c6-4048-a858-2eb9426fe1d7@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAF-1L2Qf_iMz2A-QMk0CVjJqLJO_kceZcFYZncBF=3SUuMD16g@mail.gmail.com>
> Some years ago---in the early 90s---I was working on a project with a
> number of files, moving files around and renaming. I was able to cobble
> together an elisp function to duplicate and extend the time-stamp
> functionality, to good effect, to help me keep track of the sources of
> changes.
>
> - Time-stamp the flle
> - Duplicate the previous time-stamp on the next line, (possibly in a
> list)
> - "File-stamp": record the current file name
> - Add the previous filename on the previous line, possibly as the head
> of a list of all previous names for this file.
Does this page help?
https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/TimeStamp
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-11-19 20:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-11-19 19:50 Creating automatic filename stamps Alan E. Davis
2018-11-19 20:45 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2018-11-24 8:03 ` Alan E. Davis
2018-11-24 16:33 ` Drew Adams
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