From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Nicolaescu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: 23.0.60; new vc-status interface: no more multi-file commits? Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 02:13:32 -0700 Message-ID: <200804140913.m3E9DWW1029500@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> References: <200804111613.m3BGDFfs005044@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1208164457 7058 80.91.229.12 (14 Apr 2008 09:14:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 09:14:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Tim Van Holder" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 14 11:14:47 2008 connect(): Connection refused 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 1JlKly-0002Qi-1v for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:14:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JlKlJ-0004rY-Ky for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Apr 2008 05:14:05 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JlKlC-0004rI-NM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Apr 2008 05:13:58 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JlKlA-0004r5-0C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Apr 2008 05:13:57 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JlKl9-0004r2-PI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Apr 2008 05:13:55 -0400 Original-Received: from sallyv1.ics.uci.edu ([128.195.1.109]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA1:24) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JlKl9-0004Ol-AD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Apr 2008 05:13:55 -0400 X-ICS-MailScanner-Watermark: 1208769214.80219@18SvuHimowkFXHllhhgXIw Original-Received: from mothra.ics.uci.edu (mothra.ics.uci.edu [128.195.6.93]) by sallyv1.ics.uci.edu (8.13.7+Sun/8.13.7) with ESMTP id m3E9DWW1029500; Mon, 14 Apr 2008 02:13:32 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: (Tim Van Holder's message of "Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:56:26 +0200") Original-Lines: 21 X-ICS-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ICS-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-1.44, required 5, autolearn=disabled, ALL_TRUSTED -1.44) X-ICS-MailScanner-From: dann@mothra.ics.uci.edu X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) 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:95171 Archived-At: "Tim Van Holder" writes: > On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 6:13 PM, Dan Nicolaescu wrote: > > "Tim Van Holder" writes: > > > On top of that, the retrieving of the status info uses a > > > background process; in the case of the tree I was using (a gcc > > > checkout), that process is quite slow, and there did not seem to be an > > > obvious way to cancel it. C-g did nothing (since it's a background > > > process), and when it finished after I had killed the vc-status buffer > > > I received a 'selecting deleted buffer' error. > > > > C-c C-c kills the update process (second to last menu entry). > > I didn't notice that. > Would be nice if the background task could check that its buffer was > still alive when updating it, so that it would silently abort if the > (overly impatient) user killed it (or, alternatively, kill the process > if the buffer is killed). Thanks, that sound like a good idea. Now the update process is killed when the VC status buffer is killed.