From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: vc-cvs-global-switches and -f
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 16:49:49 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv3brbh1x3.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f7ccd24b050620182851aec60d@mail.gmail.com> (Juanma Barranquero's message of "Tue, 21 Jun 2005 03:28:55 +0200")
> I was running "emacs.exe -Q" today and was puzzled to see that the
> output of `vc-diff' talked about "conflicting specifications of output
> style", until I remembered that I have an entry on ~/.cvsrc which
> says: "diff -u2", and the default style for VC is "-c".
> So the question is: why does Emacs by default assume that it is safe
> to use .cvsrc? It seems to me that having "-f" as default for
> `vc-cvs-global-switches' would be more logical, specially because in a
> situation like mine above, having it set on my .emacs wouldn't have
> helped.
I for one would be annoyed to have to re-specify in Emacs the options I've
already set globally in my ~/.cvsrc.
In PCL-CVS I slove this dilemma by parsing the ~/.cvsrc file in order to set
the default value of config vars.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-21 20:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-21 1:28 vc-cvs-global-switches and -f Juanma Barranquero
2005-06-21 20:49 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2005-06-21 22:24 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-06-22 3:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-06-22 3:51 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-06-22 10:08 ` Andre Spiegel
2005-06-22 10:41 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-06-22 11:48 ` Andre Spiegel
2005-06-22 11:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-06-22 13:03 ` Juanma Barranquero
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