Re: hint for improved keyword substitution

Mycroft Holmes wrote:
>
> Here's a modest proposal for svn 1.5 final.

1.5 is rapidly approaching release candidate status; new features are
not going to be added now.

> the $PROPERTY: VALUE $ syntax is a nightmare in C/C++ sources.

> I'd like to have some directive that replaces the FIRST occurrence of a
> user-specified keyword in the following lines.
> imagine something like:

That's not going to be possible, because the keyword stuff is strictly
line-oriented (by which I mean that it only reads and processes a single
line at a time).

Perhaps you would like this instead?

        http://subversion.tigris.org/faq.html#version-value-in-source

Either of those recipes will DTRT (for some value of "DTRT")...

John

John

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Received on 2008-03-18 20:34:26 CET