From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Disable VC when Emacs is noninteractive -batch Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 16:12:07 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87lkcpkbzc.fsf@hariken.mwolson.org> <200708052206.l75M63Hx012575@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> <877io99yoh.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87k5s88rk5.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87abt390v3.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1186517533 22547 80.91.229.12 (7 Aug 2007 20:12:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 20:12:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: dann@ics.uci.edu, mwolson@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 07 22:12:10 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 1IIVPV-0002mv-3j for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Aug 2007 22:12:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IIVPT-0004cU-8R for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Aug 2007 16:12:07 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IIVNC-0003hW-I3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Aug 2007 16:09:46 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IIVN8-0003fC-MT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Aug 2007 16:09:46 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IIVN8-0003et-5V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Aug 2007 16:09:42 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IIVN1-0007yM-Sh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Aug 2007 16:09:36 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IIVPT-0003oq-BI; Tue, 07 Aug 2007 16:12:07 -0400 In-reply-to: <87abt390v3.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (stephen@xemacs.org) 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:76157 Archived-At: I'm thinking specifically of using `find-file' on what you think is a non-existent file, and discovering that the buffer has non-empty content because the file has been checked out of RCS. I would not call that "explicitly calling VC functions". That is true. However, in that case, given the way RCS is used, I think that checking out the file is the right thing to do.