From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/75640 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Russ Allbery Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Update copyright years automatically? Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 15:29:52 -0800 Organization: The Eyrie Message-ID: <8762twqqvj.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu> References: <87ipy6sxmv.fsf@blah.blah> <8739passun.fsf@blah.blah> <87fwt0fkzr.fsf@blah.blah> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1294702249 29815 80.91.229.12 (10 Jan 2011 23:30:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 23:30:49 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M23991@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Jan 11 00:30:44 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PcRCF-0005k8-JW for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 11 Jan 2011 00:30:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1PcRBd-0002xU-Ez; Mon, 10 Jan 2011 17:30:05 -0600 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1PcRBa-0002xI-Ue for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 10 Jan 2011 17:30:02 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PcRBZ-0002mD-CJ for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 10 Jan 2011 17:30:02 -0600 Original-Received: from smtp4.stanford.edu ([171.67.219.84] helo=smtp.stanford.edu) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PcRBY-0003QO-3n for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 11 Jan 2011 00:30:00 +0100 Original-Received: from smtp.stanford.edu (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id 6534ECB59 for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2011 15:29:53 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from windlord.stanford.edu (windlord.Stanford.EDU [171.67.225.134]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.stanford.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3B1D3CA1E for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2011 15:29:52 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by windlord.stanford.edu (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 216292F46B; Mon, 10 Jan 2011 15:29:52 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <87fwt0fkzr.fsf@blah.blah> (Kevin Ryde's message of "Tue, 11 Jan 2011 09:32:24 +1100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -4.9 (----) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:75640 Archived-At: Kevin Ryde 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)