Re: [PATCH] Disable VC when Emacs is noninteractive -batch

[chad brown <y@MIT.EDU>]

On Aug 12, 2007, at 10:56 AM, Richard Stallman wrote:
>
> Do you ever delete the source files that are stored in RCS?
> If not, then this feature will never do anything in your case.
> So why object?

I'm not sure that I understand your question, but maybe I can clarify  
via example:  ~/Library/elisp/RCS/mh-flists.el,v  exists and contains  
valuable (to me) historic information about changes over time, but ~/ 
Library/elisp/mh-flists.el does not exist,  should not exist, and has  
not existed for many months.

I had read the discussion to suggest that emacs would, under certain  
circumstances, silently recreate the later file from the former.  If  
I am mistaken, please forgive my interruption -- I have been moving  
recently, and might easily have missed some detail while reading  
emacs-devel in bits and spurts.

Regardless, I merely hoped to aid by describing some (possibly  
unusual) usage patterns that I have held for years; I'm sure that I  
can adapt myself and/or emacs for my own usage.

On Aug 14, 2007, at 8:46 AM, Davis Herring wrote:

> It's not the VC system -- that is, the external program like "cvs"  
> -- that
> asks such questions, but rather the VC package in Emacs.  There's  
> no risk
> that people working on the latter won't be Emacs users and won't  
> (if it's
> documented properly!) understand the implications of automatic  
> answers.

Ah, I see that I misunderstood this part.  Mea Culpa, and thanks for  
setting me straight.

*chad