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From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: eliz@gnu.org, mwolson@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca,
	emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Disable VC when Emacs is noninteractive -batch
Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 22:42:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <85y7gndqkt.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1IIVP7-0003la-RF@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Tue\, 07 Aug 2007 16\:11\:45 -0400")

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

>     Indeed, ci(1).  Wow, that is really sick.  Anyway, the normal behavior
>     for Emacs is to keep locked files around, so I'd say we should cater
>     for that case primordinarily.  If that means some slight inconvenience
>     in "classical" RCS use from the command line, presumably not getting
>     notice of the virtual file presence until checked out, it should be
>     something we can live with.
>
> It would be better, and nearly as easy, to default the answer to "yes"
> when Emacs in batch mode asks about recreating such a file.

Sorry, but I really don't think Emacs should create non-existing files
without being asked for it.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-07 20:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-05 19:39 [PATCH] Disable VC when Emacs is noninteractive -batch Michael Olson
2007-08-05 22:06 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2007-08-06  1:32   ` Michael Olson
2007-08-06  5:20     ` Miles Bader
2007-08-06  2:36   ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-08-06 16:33     ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-06 18:07       ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-08-07  7:29         ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-07  8:59           ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-08-07 20:12             ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-06 20:46       ` Michael Olson
2007-08-06 21:22         ` Jason Rumney
2007-08-07  7:29         ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-07 10:18           ` David Kastrup
2007-08-07 20:12             ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-07 20:46               ` David Kastrup
2007-08-07 11:40           ` Michael Olson
2007-08-08  4:54             ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-08 13:07               ` Stefan Monnier
2007-08-08 13:29               ` Michael Olson
2007-08-09  5:23                 ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-07 15:53         ` Edward O'Connor
2007-08-06 14:19 ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-06 18:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-08-06 19:16   ` David Kastrup
2007-08-07  0:44     ` Miles Bader
2007-08-07  3:08     ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-08-07  6:07       ` David Kastrup
2007-08-07  6:51         ` Michael Olson
2007-08-07 20:11         ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-07 20:42           ` David Kastrup [this message]
2007-08-09  0:06             ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-09  0:17               ` David Kastrup
2007-08-11 16:38                 ` chad brown
2007-08-12 17:56                   ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-15  4:14                     ` chad brown
2007-08-16  1:08                       ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-14 15:46                   ` Davis Herring

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