From: Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 18:21:12 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Mention before-save-hook.
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Mention before-save-hook.
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diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index e904c06c699..43566ebea29 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -1737,6 +1737,11 @@ configuration files.
 
 * Lisp Changes in Emacs 21.4
 
+** The new hook `before-save-hook' is invoked by `basic-save-buffer'
+before saving buffers.  This allows packages to perform various final
+tasks, for example; it can be used by the copyright package to make
+sure saved files have the current year in any copyright headers.
+
 ** The function `insert-for-yank' now supports strings where the
 `yank-handler' property does not span the first character of the
 string.  The old behavior is available if you call