From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: Creating automatic filename stamps Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2018 12:45:23 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1542660241 30455 195.159.176.226 (19 Nov 2018 20:44:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2018 20:44:01 +0000 (UTC) To: "Alan E. Davis" , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 19 21:43:57 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gOqOi-0007pu-RD for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Nov 2018 21:43:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58967 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gOqQp-0003ZJ-7m for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Nov 2018 15:46:07 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51514) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gOqQG-0003Z2-Hv for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Nov 2018 15:45:33 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gOqQD-00038h-D1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Nov 2018 15:45:32 -0500 Original-Received: from userp2120.oracle.com ([156.151.31.85]:45838) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gOqQD-00038A-3W for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Nov 2018 15:45:29 -0500 Original-Received: from pps.filterd (userp2120.oracle.com [127.0.0.1]) by userp2120.oracle.com (8.16.0.22/8.16.0.22) with SMTP id wAJKdGvt134646; Mon, 19 Nov 2018 20:45:26 GMT DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=oracle.com; h=mime-version : message-id : date : from : sender : to : subject : references : in-reply-to : content-type : content-transfer-encoding; s=corp-2018-07-02; bh=b/iQSHS4kohbBl4lk4prY69LTtuD/IA4JCh4qCFv1+k=; b=A77sjehi0/qRlPZvdsaQpLQwLu7uXSwc5MDSzLcXYQiEbMKRBRrGPZIPflbbsOJesFZ6 wERoHlye3MyJVmi+TeQzhvInTjj7Xvz1kV2AGi8dGsmeSBIFyb+9uFt99G5Ai1TanTMm PuAXlH/Eg5d83XNqCHmJLr3zy0FopT2y5HE18Mqmn6uIE/Ys2E5OelsnLkf1R1k9G8+a YIBOFgyLXIqOOxPCED9pc2N+MEXDBPRNZ2092GD/G4ZNq1/G9i5M4QsouXxyua9Y55a+ wm4m5jROQ0V2U3OpKtdheC5qQQqYPbea3iS9vHO1UfSBxlbBG7pKUMxHKVFns5jmnrHR cg== Original-Received: from aserv0021.oracle.com (aserv0021.oracle.com [141.146.126.233]) by userp2120.oracle.com with ESMTP id 2ntbmqg7p4-1 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=OK); Mon, 19 Nov 2018 20:45:26 +0000 Original-Received: from userv0121.oracle.com (userv0121.oracle.com [156.151.31.72]) by aserv0021.oracle.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id wAJKjOoA030890 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=OK); Mon, 19 Nov 2018 20:45:25 GMT Original-Received: from abhmp0012.oracle.com (abhmp0012.oracle.com [141.146.116.18]) by userv0121.oracle.com (8.14.4/8.13.8) with ESMTP id wAJKjODG005611; Mon, 19 Nov 2018 20:45:24 GMT In-Reply-To: X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.9.1 (1003210) [OL 16.0.4771.0 (x86)] X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=nai engine=5900 definitions=9082 signatures=668683 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=0 suspectscore=0 malwarescore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 spamscore=0 mlxscore=0 mlxlogscore=934 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=8.0.1-1810050000 definitions=main-1811190185 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 156.151.31.85 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:118717 Archived-At: > 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. >=20 > - 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 hea= d > of a list of all previous names for this file. Does this page help? https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/TimeStamp