From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: OT: emacs-style variables (etc) in the headers? Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2005 22:21:09 GMT Message-ID: References: <1cXzd.3978$Rb3.3396@fe07.lga> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1104790733 743 80.91.229.6 (3 Jan 2005 22:18:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 22:18:53 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 03 23:18:44 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 1ClaXD-0004tM-00 for ; Mon, 03 Jan 2005 23:18:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1ClaiM-0004hF-Nk for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Jan 2005 17:30:14 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!snoopy.risq.qc.ca!charlie.risq.qc.ca!53ab2750!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:yCf6319jXOV2qGYZYkSvHHN6A6U= Original-Lines: 22 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 132.204.24.84 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@umontreal.ca Original-X-Trace: charlie.risq.qc.ca 1104790869 132.204.24.84 (Mon, 03 Jan 2005 17:21:09 EST) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2005 17:21:09 EST Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:127651 comp.emacs:87514 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:23118 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:23118 > 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"