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Re: Date in emacs man-file
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Stefan Kangas |
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Re: Date in emacs man-file |
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Sun, 13 Sep 2020 05:12:32 -0700 |
Colin Baxter <m43cap@yandex.com> writes:
> I notice the second line of the file man/emacs.1.in has "2007 April
> 13". Therefore "man emacs <RET>" will give this date at the foot of the
> manual, along side the emacs version (27.1 in the case of the latest
> release). Should not this date be amended to something more recent?
"man 7 man-pages" says:
date The date of the last nontrivial change that was made to the man
page. (Within the man-pages project, the necessary updates to
these timestamps are handled automatically by scripts, so there
is no need to manually update them as part of a patch.) Dates
should be written in the form YYYY-MM-DD.
Perhaps we could add a local timestamp variable to update it
automatically? It would catch even insignificant changes, but it would
be up to the committer to update the timestamp or not.