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: Removing rollback from VC mode - request for comment Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 18:43:32 +0100 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <87iohgdarf.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <20141211092138.6D5F6C008E@snark.thyrsus.com> <87y4qcj2mq.fsf@mat.ucm.es> <87mw6sdetf.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87tx10iya1.fsf@mat.ucm.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1418406414 20414 80.91.229.3 (12 Dec 2014 17:46:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 17:46:54 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 12 18:46:45 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XzUId-0007zk-K5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 18:46:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58827 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XzUId-0007vw-5K for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 12:46:43 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33785) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XzUFv-00042k-8J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 12:44:00 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XzUFp-0006oI-4M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 12:43:55 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:52403) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XzUFo-0006o5-Sm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 12:43:49 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XzUFn-0003I0-PR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 18:43:47 +0100 Original-Received: from x2f49c01.dyn.telefonica.de ([2.244.156.1]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 18:43:47 +0100 Original-Received: from dak by x2f49c01.dyn.telefonica.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 18:43:47 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 29 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: x2f49c01.dyn.telefonica.de X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:8PEg4UNE7pHNNiUmabMJI8lPXlM= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:179947 Archived-At: Uwe Brauer writes: >>> "David" == David Kastrup writes: > > > Uwe Brauer writes: > >> From a very practical point of view: I use RCS on most of my longer > >> latex documents, as it happens (without going into details) sometimes, > >> not very often but often enough, the coding is scrambled during a > >> check-in making the LaTeX file completely useless. > > > And I thought nobody was using X-Symbol anymore. > > I didn't mention x-symbol explicitly but you got me. :-D Well, it was the inspiration for preview-latex's "never touch the buffer text" philosophy. It would be interesting to redo X-Symbol with text overlays rather than actual text replacements, but it could trigger performance problems. > > Admittedly, [Git] is not all that good for keeping independent > > files in the same directory versioned independently (sort of like > > a glorified file backup). > > This is my situation. Ok. -- David Kastrup