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From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: Daniel Pfeiffer <occitan@esperanto.org>
Subject: Re: Time to update the copyrights?
Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2002 01:07:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3lmfjdjd9.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871yhbx980.fsf@squeaker.lickey.com>

"Matt Armstrong" <matt+dated+1010273174.cccad3@lickey.com> writes:

> Whats more, there is copyright.el already there to do it for you (at
> least in FSF Emacs).

Cool.

The following patch adds a command to update an entire directory,
which I think would be useful.

--- copyright.el.~1~	Mon Jan  8 16:59:40 2001
+++ copyright.el	Tue Jan  1 01:04:48 2002
@@ -145,6 +145,17 @@
   ;; If a write-file-hook returns non-nil, the file is presumed to be written.
   nil)
 
+;;;###autoload
+(defun copyright-update-directory (directory)
+  "Update the copyright statements in DIRECTORY.
+Only .el files will be updated."
+  (interactive "DUpdate copyrights in: ")
+  (let ((current-year (format-time-string "%Y")))
+  (dolist (file (directory-files directory t "\\.el$"))
+    (when (string= current-year
+		   (format-time-string "%Y" (nth 5 (file-attributes file))))
+      (find-file file)
+      (copyright-update)))))
 
 ;;;###autoload
 (define-skeleton copyright


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   larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen



  reply	other threads:[~2002-01-01  0:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-12-31 23:12 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2001-12-31 23:18 ` Russ Allbery
2001-12-31 23:26   ` Matt Armstrong
2002-01-01  0:07     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2001-12-31 23:26   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2002-01-02 14:49   ` Randal L. Schwartz
2002-01-02 15:00     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2002-01-02 16:09       ` Russ Allbery

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