Re: Emacs local variables sections in files; time-stamping

[Eric Blake]

On 02/22/2011 05:29 PM, Glenn Morris wrote:
>> Do you have a suggestion for an alternate way to ensure that the
>> timestamps are consistently updated when edited in their primary
>> upstream repo, without the use of the eval?  For example, would creating
>> a .dir-locals.el in the same repository do the trick?  And, showing how
>> little I know about .dir-locals.el, what would its contents have to be
>> to take the place of the eval?
> 
> Wow, you require everyone with commit rights to use Emacs? ;)

No, but for those that do, the update is automatic.  (The few people who
edit these files outside of emacs are on their own to do the update
manually.)

Thanks for the advice on alternate forms to try; I'll play with it some
more.

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