From: Florian Weimer Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 17:51:27 GMT Subject: Re: RCS keyword expansion Message-ID: <87ejg0fcgw.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> In-Reply-To: * Barry Fishman: > I changed my editor (Emacs) to convert RCS Ids to timestamps when I > opened a file for reading. This would fix old files. When i wrote out > files I would update the timestamp before writing them (via emacs's > timestamp package). I didn't have to think about it as my RCS Id > stamped files slowly evolve into my editor stamped ones. I'm sure I > could do something similar in VIM, or with a script encapsulating > another editor. The downside is that this causes totally unncessary conflicts when merging. Maybe a custom merge handler could deal with that, though.