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Re: setting email and name for Changelogs in vc mode
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Thien-Thi Nguyen |
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Re: setting email and name for Changelogs in vc mode |
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Sun, 26 Feb 2006 01:10:31 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Angelina Carlton <brat@magma.ca> writes:
> I can't find this in my customize menu's, does someone know
> the correct way?
here is a fragment from the bindings block of a `let' form in
the function `vc-default-update-changelog' (which eventually
is called when you do `C-x v a'):
(login-name (or user-login-name
(format "uid%d" (number-to-string (user-uid)))))
(full-name (or add-log-full-name
(user-full-name)
(user-login-name)
(format "uid%d"
(number-to-string (user-uid)))))
(mailing-address (or add-log-mailing-address
user-mail-address))
for leggibility, i have added a blank line between each of the
three forms. the car of each form is the name of a temporary
variable that is used elsewhere in the function. we cannot
set those values directly, only indirectly by munging the
values of variables referenced in the `(or ...)' part of each
binding.
the value of `(or A B C)' depends on which of A, B or C (in
that order) first evaluates to a non-nil value. evaluation is
done arg by arg; it is a search.
all this means is that we can influence the temporary
variables in several ways in the `(or ...)' form, depending on
where in the search we want the answer to be found. in a
nutshell: a "naked" symbol is a variable reference -- you can
setq that variable directly. a symbol surrounded by parens is
evaluated by calling a function by that name w/ no args.
w/ these two guidelines, we can, for example, influence the
`full-name' temporary variable by any of:
(setq add-log-full-name "J.R.Hacker")
(defun user-full-name () "J.R.Hacker")
(defun user-login-name () "J.R.Hacker")
(defun user-id () 42) ;; assuming J.R.Hacker has uid 42
likewise w/ the other temporary variables. the thing to
remember is that `or' stops when it finds a form that
evaluates to non-nil. so if you defun both `user-full-name'
and `user-login-name', the former takes precedence. (so what
happens if `user-full-name' returns nil? <-- bonus question)
anyway, these are my thoughts browsing the source.
thi