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Re: OT: emacs-style variables (etc) in the headers?
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Mike |
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Re: OT: emacs-style variables (etc) in the headers? |
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Mon, 03 Jan 2005 23:00:55 GMT |
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In article <jwvu0py88hl.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org>, Stefan Monnier
wrote:
>> I've looked at cfengine and though I like several things it does,
>> there are a few things I don't like, so I'm writing my own (just
>> like every other programmer). What I've come up with is something
>> like rpm spec files where I'm looking for a beginning tag (in this
>> case the tag is /^%uconfig file configuration/) and an ending tag
>> (/^%done/). Between these tags can fall five other tags: %pre,
>> %post, %inst, %doc, %always. The %pre is done before anything else,
>> the %post is done after the file is copied, the %always is always
>> done, the %doc is for documentation, and the %inst is a custom way
>> to copy the file (like /etc/syslog.conf) instead of using the default
>> (which copies /etc/syslog.conf :). I have a few other bits of
>> syntactic sugar in different places to make it all work.
>
>> I'm nearing the end of testing and will soon roll it to my server
>> farm.
>
>> What do you think?
>
> What is the question?
>
>
> Stefan "still not reading comp.emacs religiously"
The question was in the original post that you trimmed.
Mike