Putting vc status under dired

Putting vc status under dired

[Andreas Schwab]

How can I put the output of vc-dir in dired mode?

Andreas.

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Re: Putting vc status under dired

[Thien-Thi Nguyen]

() Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
() Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:31:57 +0200

   How can I put the output of vc-dir in dired mode?

Given DIR and a list RELATIVE-FILENAMES, you can try:
(dired-directory (cons DIR RELATIVE-FILENAMES)).

thi

Re: Putting vc status under dired

[Andreas Schwab]

Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnuvola.org> writes:

> () Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
> () Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:31:57 +0200
>
>    How can I put the output of vc-dir in dired mode?
>
> Given DIR and a list RELATIVE-FILENAMES, you can try:
> (dired-directory (cons DIR RELATIVE-FILENAMES)).

That's not what I mean.  Currently vc-dir is a big step backwards from
vc-dired.  All the useful dired bindings are missing from vc-dir.

Andreas.

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Re: Putting vc status under dired

[Stefan Monnier]

>> How can I put the output of vc-dir in dired mode?
>> 
>> Given DIR and a list RELATIVE-FILENAMES, you can try:
>> (dired-directory (cons DIR RELATIVE-FILENAMES)).

> That's not what I mean.  Currently vc-dir is a big step backwards from
> vc-dired.  All the useful dired bindings are missing from vc-dir.

Which bindings would these be?


        Stefan


PS: You can still use M-x vc-dired RET, of course, tho its future
doesn't look bright from here.

Re: Putting vc status under dired

[Andreas Schwab]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>>> How can I put the output of vc-dir in dired mode?
>>> 
>>> Given DIR and a list RELATIVE-FILENAMES, you can try:
>>> (dired-directory (cons DIR RELATIVE-FILENAMES)).
>
>> That's not what I mean.  Currently vc-dir is a big step backwards from
>> vc-dired.  All the useful dired bindings are missing from vc-dir.
>
> Which bindings would these be?

Things like multiple marks, marking all files (in a directory), running
shell commands on marked files, etc.  All these things that make dired
such a powerful tool.

Andreas.

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SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany
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Re: Putting vc status under dired

[Thien-Thi Nguyen]

() Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
() Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:30:44 +0200

   That's not what I mean.  Currently vc-dir is a big step
   backwards from vc-dired.  All the useful dired bindings are
   missing from vc-dir.

That's why i stick w/ Emacs from CVS from a few months ago,
when similar discussion resulted in "if you want it, add it back
yourself".  I knew it would just be a matter of time before some
messy damage happened...

thi

Re: Putting vc status under dired

[David Kastrup]

Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnuvola.org> writes:

> () Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
> () Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:30:44 +0200
>
>    That's not what I mean.  Currently vc-dir is a big step
>    backwards from vc-dired.  All the useful dired bindings are
>    missing from vc-dir.
>
> That's why i stick w/ Emacs from CVS from a few months ago,
> when similar discussion resulted in "if you want it, add it back
> yourself".  I knew it would just be a matter of time before some
> messy damage happened...

That's what development is all about.  By all means complain in detail
rather than sit back and let the changes sort "themselves" out without
your input.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

Re: Putting vc status under dired

[Thien-Thi Nguyen]

() David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
() Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:25:25 +0200

   That's what development is all about.

That may be true, but i tend to appreciate hacking that doesn't
break things in the process of making other things.

   By all means complain in detail rather than sit back and let
   the changes sort "themselves" out without your input.

I did the former, and now direct interested parties to:
<http://www.gnuvola.org/wip/>  (vc-status-hacking, vc-git-hacking)

so that i may do the latter (wrt Emacs).

thi

Re: Putting vc status under dired

[Stefan Monnier]

>    That's what development is all about.

> That may be true, but i tend to appreciate hacking that doesn't
> break things in the process of making other things.

>    By all means complain in detail rather than sit back and let
>    the changes sort "themselves" out without your input.

> I did the former, and now direct interested parties to:
> <http://www.gnuvola.org/wip/>  (vc-status-hacking, vc-git-hacking)

> so that i may do the latter (wrt Emacs).

Please submit changes here.


        Stefan

Re: Putting vc status under dired

[Stefan Monnier]

>>>>> "Andreas" == Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> writes:

> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>>>> How can I put the output of vc-dir in dired mode?
>>>> 
>>>> Given DIR and a list RELATIVE-FILENAMES, you can try:
>>>> (dired-directory (cons DIR RELATIVE-FILENAMES)).
>> 
>>> That's not what I mean.  Currently vc-dir is a big step backwards from
>>> vc-dired.  All the useful dired bindings are missing from vc-dir.
>> 
>> Which bindings would these be?

> Things like multiple marks, marking all files (in a directory), running
> shell commands on marked files, etc.  All these things that make dired
> such a powerful tool.

Patches to reconcile vc-dired and vc-dir are welcome, just as are
patches to make vc-dired use the new `dir-status' operation.


        Stefan