From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
To: Fabrice Niessen <fni-news@pirilampo.org>
Cc: emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [emacs-leuven-theme] diff-index foreground (#2bis)
Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2013 06:05:13 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <524B8D69.2000100@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <864n90zrxr.fsf@somewhere.org>
On 01.10.2013 22:56, Fabrice Niessen wrote:
>> - time-stamp-* local variables at the bottom of the file.
>
> ... *thanks to* the local variables:
>
> ╭────
> │ ;; Local Variables:
> │ ;; time-stamp-format: "%:y%02m%02d.%02H%02M"
> │ ;; time-stamp-start: "Version: "
> │ ;; time-stamp-end: "$"
> │ ;; End:
> ╰────
>
> This instructs the time-stamp package to update the "Version:" time stamp every
> time you save the buffer ("last change"), if you have the following in your
> `.emacs' config file:
>
> (add-hook 'before-save-hook 'time-stamp)
I see, thanks for the explanation.
>> Melpa does not use the version header (just sets the version to the time of the
>> last commit), and the time-stamp vars just seem useless to me.
>>
>> Shall I remove both of these additions before checking in the new version?
>
> This version number seems useful to me, to always know when different versions
> have been saved, even outside of any VC system.
IMHO, the "last save time" alone is pretty useless, so one shouldn't
modify important files outside of VS systems.
> May I ask to leave them, if possible?
Sure, I guess, since it serves some purpose. I don't think we have any
guidelines about that.
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2013-09-28 20:17 ` [emacs-leuven-theme] diff-index foreground (#2bis) Dmitry Gutov
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2013-10-01 19:56 ` Fabrice Niessen
2013-10-02 3:05 ` Dmitry Gutov [this message]
[not found] ` <524B8D69.2000100-o+MxOtu4lMCHXe+LvDLADg@public.gmane.org>
2013-10-02 5:06 ` Fabrice Niessen
2013-10-03 3:41 ` Stefan Monnier
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