From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: How are VC switches supposed to work? Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2008 14:24:10 -0500 Message-ID: <0tprkapehx.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <50abbff1m0.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1228245893 28392 80.91.229.12 (2 Dec 2008 19:24:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 19:24:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 02 20:25:59 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1L7ase-0005ub-1T for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Dec 2008 20:25:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56158 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L7arT-0006Sk-G6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Dec 2008 14:24:43 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L7arP-0006Sc-0T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Dec 2008 14:24:39 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L7arN-0006SO-JZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Dec 2008 14:24:37 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=53531 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L7arN-0006SL-ER for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Dec 2008 14:24:37 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:50813) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L7arN-00086x-6J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Dec 2008 14:24:37 -0500 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1L7aqw-0004iR-87; Tue, 02 Dec 2008 14:24:10 -0500 X-Spook: Saudi Arabia Ceridian JUWTF [Hello to all my friends and X-Ran: H1$<~Hi/;?6=x]m%/4q|`kA7WhT~@WXDqx(V=3?:!d)#BW7aSlQDfL"{iUF<2bnQ~}c@xP X-Hue: green X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Tue, 02 Dec 2008 10:29:14 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:106435 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier wrote: > I can't remember all the details, but I do remember that appending is > not good enough because you may have switches in diff-switches that are > not accepted by some backends. Yes; now that I think about it, that is probably enough reason to kill the "append" approach. Thanks.