Re: Date in emacs man-file

[Colin Baxter <m43cap@yandex.com>]

>>>>> Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com> writes:

    > Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com> writes:
    >> Colin Baxter <m43cap@yandex.com> writes:
    >> 
    >>> I notice the second line of the file man/emacs.1.in has "2007
    >>> April 13". Therefore "man emacs <RET>" will give this date at
    >>> the foot of the manual, along side the emacs version (27.1 in
    >>> the case of the latest release). Should not this date be amended
    >>> to something more recent?
    >> 
    >> "man 7 man-pages" says:
    >> 
    >> date The date of the last nontrivial change that was made to the
    >> man page.  (Within the man-pages project, the necessary updates
    >> to these timestamps are handled automatically by scripts, so
    >> there is no need to manually update them as part of a patch.)
    >> Dates should be written in the form YYYY-MM-DD.
    >> 
    >> Perhaps we could add a local timestamp variable to update it
    >> automatically?  It would catch even insignificant changes, but it
    >> would be up to the committer to update the timestamp or not.

    > How does the attached patch look?  In addition to fixing the
    > dates, I added a time-stamp-pattern and updated the title lines to
    > match the recommendations in "man man-pages".  (I also took a look
    > at the gcc man page and made sure they use the "GNU" header like I
    > do here.)

I've added the patch to a test branch of my local emacs git repository
and the man pages ebrowse.1, emacs.1.in, emacsclient.1, etags.1 all look
great.

Thanks.

Best wishes,

Colin Baxter.


Colin Baxter
URL: http://www.Colin-Baxter.com
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