From: "Alan E. Davis" <lngndvs@gmail.com>
To: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Creating automatic filename stamps
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2018 11:50:40 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAF-1L2Qf_iMz2A-QMk0CVjJqLJO_kceZcFYZncBF=3SUuMD16g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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.
- 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 head
of a list of all previous names for this file.
I need this functionality all the time, but I have lost the old
implementation. It must have been simple, because I knew almost no elisp
at all. But I believe I stole the "Time-stamp:" code, and modified it.
For years I have tried to locate another implementation. It seems so
pivotal, to me, that I imagine others have implemented it, probably better
than I had.
I have given it a try, but have not even gotten close. I would be grateful
for any suggestions how to go about implementing this functionality.
Alan Davis
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-11-19 19:50 Alan E. Davis [this message]
2018-11-19 20:45 ` Creating automatic filename stamps Drew Adams
2018-11-24 8:03 ` Alan E. Davis
2018-11-24 16:33 ` Drew Adams
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