From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bob Rogers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#7350: 24.0.50; make vc-deduce-backend smarter Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 14:54:17 -0500 Message-ID: <19688.10089.888644.949441@rgr.rgrjr.com> References: <19669.54304.980911.220632@rgr.rgrjr.com> <19671.7412.608640.593137@rgr.rgrjr.com> <19672.26151.150217.308712@rgr.rgrjr.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1290284084 9168 80.91.229.12 (20 Nov 2010 20:14:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 20:14:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 7350@debbugs.gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 20 21:14:40 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PJtpW-0006tT-QV for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Nov 2010 21:14:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43350 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PJtpU-0008VL-Rh for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Nov 2010 15:14:36 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=36020 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PJtpN-0008Un-Ma for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Nov 2010 15:14:31 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PJtpL-0000C4-4t for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Nov 2010 15:14:28 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:36002) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PJtpL-0000C0-22 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Nov 2010 15:14:27 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PJtRj-0005Ph-HZ; Sat, 20 Nov 2010 14:50:03 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Bob Rogers Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-To: owner@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 19:50:03 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 7350 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 7350-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B7350.129028255220794 (code B ref 7350); Sat, 20 Nov 2010 19:50:03 +0000 Original-Received: (at 7350) by debbugs.gnu.org; 20 Nov 2010 19:49:12 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PJtQt-0005PK-TO for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 20 Nov 2010 14:49:12 -0500 Original-Received: from rgrjr.com ([216.146.47.5]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PJtQr-0005PE-Eu for 7350@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 20 Nov 2010 14:49:10 -0500 Original-Received: from rgrjr.dyndns.org (c-66-30-196-77.hsd1.ma.comcast.net [66.30.196.77]) by rgrjr.com (Postfix on CentOS) with ESMTP id 819E016010C for <7350@debbugs.gnu.org>; Sat, 20 Nov 2010 19:54:19 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: (qmail 29784 invoked by uid 89); 20 Nov 2010 19:54:18 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO rgr.rgrjr.com) (192.168.57.1) by home with SMTP; 20 Nov 2010 19:54:18 -0000 Original-Received: by rgr.rgrjr.com (Postfix, from userid 500) id 54367A4E6E; Sat, 20 Nov 2010 14:54:18 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 24.0.50.1 X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 14:50:03 -0500 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:41773 Archived-At: From: Stefan Monnier Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 08:48:30 -0500 > Works for me. It doesn't cover the cases where I'm looking at a > generated file, or test output, but (in my workflow anyway) those cases > are rarer. I've installed the patch into the trunk (i.e. not for Emacs-23.3 but Emacs-24) and added compilation-mode to shell-mode, since it's also clearly linked to a particular location in the file-system. FWIW, the "32.1.4 Examining And Comparing Old Revisions" section of the Emacs info documentation says the following (tenth paragraph): If you invoke `C-x v =' or `C-u C-x v =' from a buffer that is neither visiting a version-controlled file nor a VC directory buffer, these commands generate a diff of all registered files in the current directory and its subdirectories. So it turns out that my expectation is what is actually documented after all. ;-} -- Bob