Re: [OctDev] emacs macro for 2.1.39 adaptation

[Paul K. <pki...@ja...>]

I'm a heavy user of

	cvs diff -c *.m

- Paul

On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 11:57:15AM +0000, Etienne Grossmann wrote:
> 
>   Hello,
> 
> the intent was to facilitate the transition and make clear what was
> changed and what is new. If bugs appear, one can check that the new
> and old code really do the same. I was tagging lots of code by hand
> and I found the macro useful.
> 
>   Cheers,
> 
>   Etienne
> 
> On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 05:53:22PM -0500, Paul Kienzle wrote:
> # Supporting both styles of args will lead to a lot crufty code.  Along with
> # the rapid developments of the past few months (cell array support and 
> # keyed list support) we are going to be doing a lot of things differently.
> # 
> # Do we really want to support pre-2.1.38 Octave?
> # 
> # I've already converted functions in general, image and signal, but I can
> # put backward compatibility support in again if someone wants to take the
> # time to write the preprocessor.
> # 
> # Please use apps available to configure: cc, grep, awk, sed but no perl,
> # python or tcl.
> # 
> # To support the TSA toolbox, the preprocessor should also be able to test
> # for matlab versions.
> # 
> # How about:
> # 
> # 	%function foo (...)      %# pre o2.1.37
> # 	function foo (varargin)  %# post o2.1.37 or post m5.0.0
> # 	%function foo (a1,a2,a3,a4,a5) %# pre m5
> # 
> # Or if you don't want to bother with Matlab 4 support
> # 
> # 	%function foo (...)      %# pre o2.1.37
> # 	function foo (varargin)  %# post o2.1.37 or post m0
> # 
> # We don't have to write the preprocessor now, but it would be nice to
> # nail the syntax.  
> # 
> # Call it with 
> # 	mprep o$OCTAVE_VERSION *.m
> # or
> # 	mprep m$MATLAB_VERSION *.m
> # 
> # 
> # So version is nameMajor.Minor.Patch, and we need pre, post, and, or
> # 
> # We could let name be the null string for octave.
> # 
> # Thoughts?
> # 
> # - Paul
> # 
> # On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 01:35:29PM +0000, Etienne Grossmann wrote:
> # > 
> # >   Hello,
> # > 
> # > for those who use emacs and are updating octave code for 2.1.39, the
> # > following macro may come handy to substitute a line like 
> # > 
> # >      function foo (...)
> # > 
> # >   into 
> # > 
> # >      ## pre 2.1.39 function foo (...)
> # >      function foo (...) ## pos 2.1.39
> # > 
> # > , so that it be easy to keep track of the changes.
> # > 
> # >   Hth,
> # > 
> # >   Etienne
> # > 
> # > ======================================================================
> # > ;; Keyboard Macro Editor.  Press C-c C-c to finish; press C-x k RET to cancel.
> # > ;; Original keys: C-a C-k C-y C-a ## S-SPC pre SPC 2.1.39 SPC C-e RET C-y C-e SPC ## SPC pos SPC 2.1.39
> # > 
> # > Command: octadapt
> # > Key: none
> # > 
> # > Macro:
> # > 
> # > C-a			;; beginning-of-line
> # > C-k			;; kill-line
> # > C-y			;; hilit-yank
> # > C-a			;; beginning-of-line
> # > ##			;; self-insert-command * 2
> # > S-SPC
> # > pre			;; self-insert-command * 3
> # > SPC			;; self-insert-command
> # > 2.1.39			;; self-insert-command * 6
> # > SPC			;; self-insert-command
> # > C-e			;; end-of-line
> # > RET			;; newline
> # > C-y			;; hilit-yank
> # > C-e			;; end-of-line
> # > SPC			;; self-insert-command
> # > ##			;; self-insert-command * 2
> # > SPC			;; self-insert-command
> # > pos			;; self-insert-command * 3
> # > SPC			;; self-insert-command
> # > 2.1.39			;; self-insert-command * 6
> # > 
> # > 
> # > -- 
> # > Etienne Grossmann ------ http://www.isr.ist.utl.pt/~etienne
> # > 
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