From: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Update copyright years automatically?
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 15:29:52 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8762twqqvj.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fwt0fkzr.fsf@blah.blah> (Kevin Ryde's message of "Tue, 11 Jan 2011 09:32:24 +1100")
Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au> writes:
> It could helpfully do that. There seems to be a refill when it "fixes"
> two-digit years, but not when just adding.
> I suppose hanging indents like
> ;; Copyright (C) 1985, 1986, 1988, 1993, 1994, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001,
> ;; 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
> ;; Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> might need a helping hand to create correctly when one-line becomes long
> enough to turn into two-lines.
BTW, the GNU coding standards have been modified to allow compaction of
dates into a range (like 1997-2009) provided that the project has a note
in the README explaining what the range means.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-10 23:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-02 5:26 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-01-02 13:49 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-01-02 19:36 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-01-02 23:18 ` Kevin Ryde
2011-01-02 23:48 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-01-03 1:01 ` Kevin Ryde
2011-01-03 4:43 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-01-03 4:55 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-01-10 22:32 ` Kevin Ryde
2011-01-10 23:29 ` Russ Allbery [this message]
2011-01-11 18:48 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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