suppressing copyright.el

[Miles Bader]

On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 05:35:30PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > what copyright.el does,
> 
> In what way exactly?
> [ Note: I've changed the code since Emacs-21.1. ]

BTW, I'd like to change copyright.el to _not_ do anything with patches/diffs
(as these often contain copyright strings, which you almost certainly do
_not_ want to update -- in fact the problem is usually the `before' half of
just such an update!).

Is it a better method to:

  (1) copyright.el test whether (eq major-mode 'diff-mode)

or

  (2) add a variable in copyright.el like `suppress-copyright-update', which
      is make-variable-buffer-local and defaults to nil, and then change
      diff-mode to set it to t

?

I'd guess the latter, but ...

Thanks,

-Miles
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