Bruno Haible wrote:
Jim Meyering wrote:
I learned long enough ago that
files like Makefile, Makefile.in, configure, etc. are generated,
so that their being writable isn't a big deal. But still, for
novices, ...
Would it help you if we consequently mark every generated file (except
generated doc - info, html, pdf, ps) with
DO NOT EDIT! GENERATED AUTOMATICALLY!
in the first or second line?
Bruno
Or maybe both of these lines :)
-*- buffer-read-only: t -*- vi: set ro:
DO NOT EDIT! GENERATED AUTOMATICALLY!
