From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Automatically commenting changes
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 22:32:56 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv8vy8pch3.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.1.1295948439.29299.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> An editor I used long long ago had the ability to tag lines you changed
> with your name (or some other customisable character sequence). For
> example if I changed the line
> int i = 0;
> the editor would automatically generate a comment on the end:
> int i = 1; /*gary*/
> Does anything like this exist for emacs? Apart from me remembering to do
> it manually, of course...
I think the way to attack such a problem nowadays is to keep your code
in a version control system (VCS), which then keeps track of all that
info for you. Emacs and other tools can then use the VCS data to show
you to whom a line belongs.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-26 3:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <mailman.1.1295948439.29299.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-01-25 10:09 ` Automatically commenting changes Pascal J. Bourguignon
2011-01-26 3:32 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2011-01-26 13:21 ` Gary
[not found] ` <mailman.0.1296048116.12534.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-01-26 13:57 ` Richard Riley
2011-01-26 16:05 ` Gary
[not found] ` <mailman.2.1296057926.30134.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-01-26 19:54 ` Tim X
2011-01-27 2:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-01-26 15:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-01-25 9:40 Gary
2011-01-25 9:46 ` Deniz Dogan
2011-01-25 10:48 ` Gary
2011-01-25 18:38 ` Thierry Volpiatto
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