Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 15:59:19 -0600 From: rob_spellberg <emailrob@emailrob.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: [kinda ot] writing the date into a file when saving it Message-ID: <40158DB7.1020409@emailrob.com>
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dear sir or madam --- this may be a vi question, but i'd like to be editor-independent, if possible. i want to self-document source code files when i write them to disk. this would include such things as path and modification time. ideally, within vi, i would like to have :w run a script [ that i would write ] that does exactly what i want. for years, i've been doing this more or less haphazardly during development, until i was satisfied that the file was in its final form. then i would manually get it right and leave it alone. but i'm writing too much right now to keep doing this manually and i'm something of a nut for documentation. its easy enough to write a sed script to find a unique string and do a replacement. its only slightly more involved to write a glorified version of touch [ which is kinda what i want, actually ]. maybe what i want is to go into vi [ or ex, or wherever ], find where :w is processed and cause it to look for a script to run. i know about :so. i know about !command. neither are really "it". i've been googling for about an hour and coming up almost completely empty. maybe there's a jargon word for what i want that i don't know. so to get to the question: what do you folks do? rob spellberg woodstock, illinois
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