Re: TODO [was Re: Looking for a new Emacs maintainer or team]

["V.Rao" <mail.vjrao@yahoo.com>]

Regarding the copyright assignment, I have seen some samples.
Is there a template that could be provided to me - that I would review and  
sign?
(I was reading http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/index.html).

thanks.



On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:13:13 -0500, Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>  
wrote:

> "V.Rao" <mail.vjrao@yahoo.com> writes:
>
>   > 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.
>
> --- vc.el       10 Oct 2007 10:34:53 -0700      1.464
> +++ vc.el       11 Oct 2007 12:18:02 -0700
> @@ -1328,7 +1327,19 @@
>      (save-excursion
>        ;; t means don't call normal-mode;
>        ;; that's to preserve various minor modes.
> -      (revert-buffer arg no-confirm t))
> +      (if (string=
> +          (with-temp-buffer
> +            ;; Insert the file on disk in a temporary buffer and  
> compute the md5 there.
> +            (let ((coding-system-for-read 'binary))
> +              (insert-file-contents file)
> +              (md5 (current-buffer))))
> +          (md5 (current-buffer)))  ;; md5 for the current buffer
> +         (let ((writable (file-writable-p (buffer-file-name)))) ;; Try  
> to set the read-only state.
> +           (unless (eq buffer-read-only writable)
> +             (setq buffer-read-only writable))
> +           (message "not reverting"))
> +       (message "reverting :-(")
> +       (revert-buffer arg no-confirm t)))
>      (vc-restore-buffer-context context)))
> (defun vc-buffer-sync (&optional not-urgent)