From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: vc-magit mode (was: Re: PROPOSAL: Repurpose one key and reserve it for third-party packages) Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2021 19:22:19 +0200 Message-ID: <83ft23j0s4.fsf@gnu.org> References: <7ef75c33936136eb3a20@heytings.org> <87czxazbhr.fsf@melete.silentflame.com> <871rdqfaix.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87mtwd42ck.fsf@melete.silentflame.com> <83tuqkhr9f.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="39295"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: eric@ericabrahamsen.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, thibaut.verron@gmail.com, spwhitton@spwhitton.name To: "Alfred M. Szmidt" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 10 18:29:48 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1l9tJD-000A7F-Dg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 10 Feb 2021 18:29:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41810 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l9tJC-0008Pe-G7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 10 Feb 2021 12:29:46 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:52178) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l9tC8-0000Xn-6u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Feb 2021 12:22:28 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:48175) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l9tC7-00030U-HV; Wed, 10 Feb 2021 12:22:27 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:4393 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1l9tBy-0004kn-9R; Wed, 10 Feb 2021 12:22:18 -0500 In-Reply-To: (ams@gnu.org) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:264306 Archived-At: > From: "Alfred M. Szmidt" > Cc: thibaut.verron@gmail.com, eric@ericabrahamsen.net, > spwhitton@spwhitton.name, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2021 11:47:05 -0500 > > > Here is an idea, a new backend -- vc-magit. This calls the right > > Magit functions. The user can then set the prefered backends using > > vc-handled-backends. > > Dmitry will tell for sure, but I think adapting Magit to the VC > architecture won't be easy, since Magit is not exactly a backend like > the other ones. The VC framework might be a kind of Procrustean bed > for Magit. > > Even if the architecture makes it complciated to do it using a vc > backend, magit could still take over the C-x v binding for its own > purpose with similar semantics to what is in vc-mode. I said nothing about keybindings, only about your suggestion to make Magit another VC backend.