From: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@gnu.org>,
Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>,
Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
Subject: Re: vc-dir default directory: repository root?
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 01:59:30 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54C0CA02.4050406@dancol.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvh9vjyjne.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
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On 01/21/2015 12:16 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> That seems like it'd confuse users. Are we okay with just repurposing
>> the prefix argument?
>
> Fine by me.
I like the idea of using prefix argument repetition to select the
arguments for which we'd like to prompt. How's this?
diff --git a/lisp/vc/vc-dir.el b/lisp/vc/vc-dir.el
index e050c94..c5fbcf6 100644
--- a/lisp/vc/vc-dir.el
+++ b/lisp/vc/vc-dir.el
@@ -1227,7 +1227,10 @@ first appears, it has only the first few lines of
summary information.
The file lines appear later.
Optional second argument BACKEND specifies the VC backend to use.
-Interactively, a prefix argument means to ask for the backend.
+Interactively, display the repository root. A single prefix
+argument means to ask for the root directory, defaulting to
+`default-directory'. A duplicated default prefix argument (e.g.,
+C-u C-u) means to ask for the VC back-end as well.
These are the commands available for use in the file status buffer:
@@ -1240,16 +1243,20 @@ These are the commands available for use in the
file status buffer:
;; therefore it makes sense to always do that.
;; Otherwise if you do C-x v d -> C-x C-f -> C-c v d
;; you may get a new *vc-dir* buffer, different from the original
- (file-truename (read-directory-name "VC status for directory: "
- (vc-root-dir) nil t
- nil))
(if current-prefix-arg
- (intern
- (completing-read
- "Use VC backend: "
- (mapcar (lambda (b) (list (symbol-name b)))
- vc-handled-backends)
- nil t nil nil)))))
+ (file-truename (read-directory-name "VC status for directory: "
+ default-directory
default-directory t
+ nil))
+ (vc-root-dir))
+ (when (and (consp current-prefix-arg)
+ (null (cdr current-prefix-arg))
+ (> (car current-prefix-arg) 4))
+ (intern
+ (completing-read
+ "Use VC backend: "
+ (mapcar (lambda (b) (list (symbol-name b)))
+ vc-handled-backends)
+ nil t nil nil)))))
(unless backend
(setq backend (vc-responsible-backend dir)))
(let (pop-up-windows) ; based on cvs-examine; bug#6204
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-01-22 9:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-10 6:52 vc-dir default directory: repository root? Daniel Colascione
2015-01-11 1:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-01-11 8:33 ` Andreas Schwab
2015-01-11 15:53 ` Wolfgang Jenkner
2015-01-11 19:02 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2015-01-19 1:40 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-01-19 15:47 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2015-01-19 23:17 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-01-20 20:06 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2015-01-21 14:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-01-21 16:20 ` Ivan Shmakov
2015-01-21 17:33 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2015-01-21 17:48 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-01-21 18:22 ` Ivan Shmakov
2015-01-21 18:43 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-01-21 19:22 ` Ivan Shmakov
2015-01-21 18:47 ` João Távora
2015-01-21 19:06 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-01-21 20:14 ` João Távora
2015-01-21 20:30 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-01-22 12:40 ` João Távora
2015-01-22 15:19 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2015-01-21 19:35 ` Wolfgang Jenkner
2015-01-21 19:42 ` Daniel Colascione
2015-01-21 20:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-01-22 9:59 ` Daniel Colascione [this message]
2015-01-22 1:44 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-01-22 9:17 ` Andreas Schwab
2015-01-22 11:14 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-01-22 12:04 ` Jan D.
2015-01-22 14:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-01-22 14:23 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-01-22 14:38 ` Andreas Schwab
2015-01-22 14:46 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-01-22 15:30 ` Drew Adams
2015-01-22 16:16 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-01-22 15:40 ` Andreas Schwab
2015-01-22 14:45 ` Ivan Shmakov
2015-01-22 14:49 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-01-22 15:50 ` Ivan Shmakov
2015-01-22 16:26 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-01-22 16:11 ` Wolfgang Jenkner
2015-01-19 1:38 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-01-19 3:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-01-19 4:54 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-01-19 14:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-01-19 14:55 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-01-19 14:57 ` Daniel Colascione
2015-01-19 22:43 ` Dmitry Gutov
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