From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: TODO Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:54:50 -0500 Message-ID: References: <5E2DA7EF-D0F1-4B0C-A3DC-F0B64FE2FE00@gmail.com> <13170DB6-B7A1-4843-AAF5-AB68B65D2331@gmail.com> <18370.18434.78349.822958@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <200802261813.m1QIDEku015891@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <200802261848.m1QImEag004425@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1204052134 19084 80.91.229.12 (26 Feb 2008 18:55:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 18:55:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: mail.vjrao@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, Nick Roberts , "rms@gnu.org" To: Dan Nicolaescu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 26 19:55:59 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 1JU4xo-0004fb-J9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:55:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JU4xI-0003gr-LT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:55:08 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JU4xE-0003gm-91 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:55:04 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JU4xB-0003ga-SF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:55:03 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JU4xB-0003gX-ND for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:55:01 -0500 Original-Received: from mercure.iro.umontreal.ca ([132.204.24.67]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JU4x8-0003kL-0o; Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:54:58 -0500 Original-Received: from hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.50]) by mercure.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 853372CF95D; Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:54:57 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from faina.iro.umontreal.ca (faina.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.26.177]) by hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 826333FE0; Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:54:50 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: by faina.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 6BF286CAA2; Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:54:50 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <200802261848.m1QImEag004425@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> (Dan Nicolaescu's message of "Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:48:14 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-DIRO-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-DIRO-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-DIRO-MailScanner-SpamCheck: n'est pas un polluriel, SpamAssassin (score=-2.709, requis 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -2.82, MC_COPYWRT 0.11, STOCK_S_SYMB 0.00) X-DIRO-MailScanner-From: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:90521 Archived-At: >> >> Please let me know if anyone is already working on one of these tasks. >> >> >> >> ** make emacsclient accept -nw as a synonym to -t. >> >> >> >> ** Replace some uses of the preprocessor code in Makefile.in with the >> >> equivalent autoconf. >> >> >> >> ** Make "emacs --daemon" start emacs without showing any frame. >> >> Use emacsclient later to open frames. >> >> > AFAIK nobody has publicly announced that is working on any of these. >> >> > Do you have a copyright assignment on file? If not, it would make sense >> > to get started on that as soon as possible, so that it is ready by the >> > time you finish writing the code. >> >> >> >> ** Make vc-checkin avoid reverting the buffer if has not changed after >> >> the checkin. Comparing (md5 BUFFER) to (md5 FILE) should be enough. >> >> > I have a patch for this one. >> >> > But it needs a few more eyes on it from people that know the code >> > involved very well to make sure it is correct and the right thing to do. >> > The patch itself is not too complicated. >> >> BTW, I'd like someone to clarify the goal. I.e. what is it trying >> to fix. It seems that if the file hasn't been changed, the current code >> should at the very least end up not modifying the buffer (since >> insert-file-contents already compares the bytes to find the unchanged >> prefix and suffix). So what is the difference in this case between >> calling revert-buffer and not calling it? > The goal is not to revert the buffer after a checkin. Right now files > are reverted by default after a checkin (because of the possibility that > keyword expansion can change the file?). Not reverting would be good > because it would keep the undo history (you probably remember that > discussion). If the problem is the undo-list, then we can change insert-file-contents to not clear the buffer-undo-list in the case where it did make any changes to the buffer. Stefan