From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Disable VC when Emacs is noninteractive -batch Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 22:42:26 +0200 Message-ID: <85y7gndqkt.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <87lkcpkbzc.fsf@hariken.mwolson.org> <85odhkfp7n.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <86zm13andn.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1186519512 29187 80.91.229.12 (7 Aug 2007 20:45:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 20:45:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eliz@gnu.org, mwolson@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 07 22:45:08 2007 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 1IIVvO-0003t6-Rt for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Aug 2007 22:45:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IIVvK-0000sQ-7o for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Aug 2007 16:45:02 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IIVvG-0000s9-Gu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Aug 2007 16:44:58 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IIVvC-0000rR-FY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Aug 2007 16:44:58 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IIVvC-0000rO-74 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Aug 2007 16:44:54 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.41.8] (helo=mx20.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IIVuM-0006wI-0c; Tue, 07 Aug 2007 16:44:02 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-01.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.41]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IIVtw-0004NA-Rx; Tue, 07 Aug 2007 16:43:37 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-05-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-05-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.17]) by mail-in-01.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 188BB15B650; Tue, 7 Aug 2007 22:42:32 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail-in-05.arcor-online.net (mail-in-05.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.45]) by mail-in-05-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04B662DA967; Tue, 7 Aug 2007 22:42:32 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from lola.goethe.zz (dslb-084-061-013-125.pools.arcor-ip.net [84.61.13.125]) by mail-in-05.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90F3A1CB76F; Tue, 7 Aug 2007 22:42:29 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 9CFB31C3C79D; Tue, 7 Aug 2007 22:42:26 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Tue\, 07 Aug 2007 16\:11\:45 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.91.1/3886/Tue Aug 7 20:02:14 2007 on mail-in-05.arcor-online.net X-Virus-Status: Clean X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-Detected-Kernel: 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:76159 Archived-At: Richard Stallman 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