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: Sun, 12 Aug 2007 13:56:17 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87lkcpkbzc.fsf@hariken.mwolson.org> <85odhkfp7n.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <86zm13andn.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <85y7gndqkt.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <85y7glo91t.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1186941283 17549 80.91.229.12 (12 Aug 2007 17:54:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2007 17:54:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eliz@gnu.org, mwolson@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: chad brown Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 12 19:54:30 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 1IKHdz-0004lw-Fc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Aug 2007 19:54:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IKHdz-0004yZ-20 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Aug 2007 13:54:27 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IKHca-00044m-FC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Aug 2007 13:53:00 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IKHcY-00042w-Q0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Aug 2007 13:53:00 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IKHcY-00042k-KJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Aug 2007 13:52:58 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IKHcY-0004et-9V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Aug 2007 13:52:58 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IKHfl-0004Pk-Sk; Sun, 12 Aug 2007 13:56:17 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from chad brown on Sat, 11 Aug 2007 09:38:48 -0700) 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:76384 Archived-At: 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.