[PATCH v4 2/3] emacs: add notmuch-version.el.tmpl and create notmuch-version.el from it

[David Bremner]

Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila at iki.fi> writes:

>
> This is more due to the template-to-file conversion simplicity than need
> and I thought there is no harm having the copyright there. At least the
> file is consistent with others in that sense.

OK, I can live with it.

>
> All of these are of type string, and the documentation states whether 
> it is (at least close to) numeric or not within string. But there is
> no tradition of what *-version should contain.

I think depending on the contents of a string to be parseable in any
particular way is probably a bad idea in any case, particularly in a
lisp where you can just make the variable the appropriate type...

d