Re: [Erc-help] [devel] RFC on timestamping

[Andreas F. <as...@vo...>]

Today, Alex Schroeder <al...@em...> wrote:
>> I would vote for the -post-hook. Timestamping is IMHO supposed to
>> happen after everything else is done (most prominently filling),
>> which is the reason for this hook's existence.
> 
> Hm, I think we want to add the timestamp, and then do the filling
> afterwards.

Well, I think that would require that all filling functions keep track
of timestamp stuff, as well as the timestamp functions.

It will also make it impossible to have a right-aligned timestamp, as
the stamp will be moved around arbitrarily by the filling functions
(we can't know what the user is using for filling).

Therefore, I don't think that is a good idea.

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Andreas Fuchs, <as...@ac...>, as...@ja..., antifuchs