From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: chad brown <y@MIT.EDU>
Cc: eliz@gnu.org, mwolson@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Disable VC when Emacs is noninteractive -batch
Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2007 13:56:17 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1IKHfl-0004Pk-Sk@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DE3536D7-4FD0-4C90-9890-C0771556AC2E@mit.edu> (message from chad brown on Sat, 11 Aug 2007 09:38:48 -0700)
These days, my primary use of RCS is to keep copies of files (with
history) that I no longer want in my working directories. I
occasionally examine these files, but it's pretty rare - basically a
warm archive, with history.
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 would be leery of having emacs automatically answer any VC
questions at all -- there are new vc systems being added and
developed, and it's not hard for me to imagine a (non-emacs-using)
developer adding a prompt where either `yes' or `no' is the right
answer most of the time but a destructively wrong answer in some
rarer cases.
Speculations about hypothetical future features, that will probably
never exist and would be separate issues if they did exist, does not
seem relevant.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-12 17:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-05 19:39 [PATCH] Disable VC when Emacs is noninteractive -batch Michael Olson
2007-08-05 22:06 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2007-08-06 1:32 ` Michael Olson
2007-08-06 5:20 ` Miles Bader
2007-08-06 2:36 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-08-06 16:33 ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-06 18:07 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-08-07 7:29 ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-07 8:59 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-08-07 20:12 ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-06 20:46 ` Michael Olson
2007-08-06 21:22 ` Jason Rumney
2007-08-07 7:29 ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-07 10:18 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-07 20:12 ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-07 20:46 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-07 11:40 ` Michael Olson
2007-08-08 4:54 ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-08 13:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-08-08 13:29 ` Michael Olson
2007-08-09 5:23 ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-07 15:53 ` Edward O'Connor
2007-08-06 14:19 ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-06 18:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-08-06 19:16 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-07 0:44 ` Miles Bader
2007-08-07 3:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-08-07 6:07 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-07 6:51 ` Michael Olson
2007-08-07 20:11 ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-07 20:42 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-09 0:06 ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-09 0:17 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-11 16:38 ` chad brown
2007-08-12 17:56 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2007-08-15 4:14 ` chad brown
2007-08-16 1:08 ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-14 15:46 ` Davis Herring
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