From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: 23.0.50; vc: missing done in progress message Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 15:04:58 -0500 Message-ID: <9l7ihs4cut.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <87r6g2zj68.fsf@ambire.localdomain> <87tzkx10bz.fsf@ambire.localdomain> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1201637161 10375 80.91.229.12 (29 Jan 2008 20:06:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 20:06:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Ulrich Neumerkel , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Thien-Thi Nguyen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 29 21:06:22 2008 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 1JJwiT-0001ra-SH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 21:05:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JJwi2-0004kc-UV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 15:05:30 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JJwhZ-0004bQ-Q9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 15:05:01 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JJwhX-0004aT-Qe for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 15:05:01 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JJwhX-0004aP-MM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 15:04:59 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JJwhX-00076L-EN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 15:04:59 -0500 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JJwhW-0006Wb-IN; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 15:04:58 -0500 X-Spook: quarter bluebird Skipjack Ft. Bragg UOP Hamas S Key X-Ran: pLu#f.Jm|IsXAT*)x#q1;F@h6Ry69`(=>pEhAEE~Ae]Wf9#otQcyKfNK:,/l{d[?6k-}'G X-Hue: cyan X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: <87tzkx10bz.fsf@ambire.localdomain> (Thien-Thi Nguyen's message of "Tue, 29 Jan 2008 09:51:28 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: 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:87751 Archived-At: Thien-Thi Nguyen wrote: > "OK = 0" is pretty uninformative IMO. Is it good or bad? > > It depends on what you consider good or bad. For diff(1)-like > programs, exit value of zero means no differences detected. By experiment, this is not what Emacs is using it to mean.