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Re: Automatically commenting changes


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: Automatically commenting changes
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 22:32:56 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux)

> An editor I used long long ago had the ability to tag lines you changed
> with your name (or some other customisable character sequence). For
> example if I changed the line
>   int i = 0;
> the editor would automatically generate a comment on the end:
>   int i = 1; /*gary*/

> Does anything like this exist for emacs? Apart from me remembering to do
> it manually, of course...

I think the way to attack such a problem nowadays is to keep your code
in a version control system (VCS), which then keeps track of all that
info for you.  Emacs and other tools can then use the VCS data to show
you to whom a line belongs.


        Stefan


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