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Diffstat (limited to 'lisp/emacs-lisp/copyright.el')
| -rw-r--r-- | lisp/emacs-lisp/copyright.el | 15 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/lisp/emacs-lisp/copyright.el b/lisp/emacs-lisp/copyright.el index 6ba2e7804bb..d2e4891acee 100644 --- a/lisp/emacs-lisp/copyright.el +++ b/lisp/emacs-lisp/copyright.el @@ -144,11 +144,16 @@ This function sets the match-data that `copyright-update-year' uses." (with-demoted-errors "Can't update copyright: %s" ;; (1) Need the extra \\( \\) around copyright-regexp because we ;; goto (match-end 1) below. See note (2) below. - (copyright-re-search (concat "\\(" copyright-regexp - "\\)\\([ \t]*\n\\)?.*\\(?:" - copyright-names-regexp "\\)") - (copyright-limit) - t))) + (let ((regexp (concat "\\(" copyright-regexp + "\\)\\([ \t]*\n\\)?.*\\(?:" + copyright-names-regexp "\\)"))) + (when (copyright-re-search regexp (copyright-limit) t) + ;; We may accidentally have landed in the middle of a + ;; copyright line, so re-perform the search without the + ;; search. (Otherwise we may be inserting the new year in the + ;; middle of the list of years.) + (goto-char (match-beginning 0)) + (copyright-re-search regexp nil t))))) (defun copyright-find-end () "Possibly adjust the search performed by `copyright-find-copyright'. |