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Re: copyright-update-directory / Copyright at the bottom of files
From: |
Glenn Morris |
Subject: |
Re: copyright-update-directory / Copyright at the bottom of files |
Date: |
Sun, 02 Mar 2008 21:00:41 -0500 |
User-agent: |
Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) |
Reiner Steib wrote:
> But maybe such a functionality is already there? Glenn, how did you
> handle updating the years and the switch to GPLv3?
I used a shell-script with awk. :)
> Unless there are objections or there is a better solution available,
> I'll add this to `copyright.el' in a few days:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> (defun copyright-update-directory (directory match)
> "Update copyright notice for all files in DIRECTORY matching MATCH."
Worth having, IMO.
> As because of `copyright-limit's default of 2000, it fails to update
> the years in (Gnus) ChangeLog files. Maybe `copyright-update' should
> search at the bottom of the file as well?
Good idea. Perhaps controlled by a buffer-local variable that could be
set non-nil in ChangeLogs?