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From: Rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: List of buffers under version control?
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2016 21:05:21 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <006fed39-43f3-40aa-a72b-c736ba9bf86c@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877fc6wrv7.fsf@linux-qg7d.fritz.box>

On Thursday, July 28, 2016 at 5:33:59 AM UTC+5:30, Rolf Ade wrote:
> I often edit files in emacs, that are under version control. It should
> not, but it happens, that I haven#t save-buffer some buffer, while
> check-in on the cmd line.
> 
> Since I already sometimes use a wrapper around my scm cmd line tool I
> imagined, that my wrapper could ask the running emacs about unsaved
> buffers under version control and warn me before actually checking in.
> 
> Looks, emacsclient -e is the most general interpretation of 'query the
> running emacs' and emacsclient already works for me. Although I didn't
> was aware of -e so far less than five Minutes and it still looks easily
> done.
> 
> But from that, it started to get swampy. I'd like to get a yes / no
> answer from emacs, if one (or more) of 'some buffers' is unsaved. I don't
> want to provide, what 'some buffers' mean. A good heuristic for my usage
> habits would be: some buffers are all files under version control.
> 
> I tinkered araound more than a half hour, but wasn't able to come up
> with a few simple lines of emacs lisp that do that. How should I do?

Not an answer…
Still if you are using git, magit will deal with all (or most) of this
Of course you need to invert your workflow and do the command-line stuff 
from inside emacs


  reply	other threads:[~2016-07-28  4:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-28  0:03 List of buffers under version control? Rolf Ade
2016-07-28  4:05 ` Rusi [this message]
2016-07-28 19:31   ` Rolf Ade
2016-07-28 19:52     ` John Mastro
2016-07-28 19:58       ` John Mastro
2016-07-28 19:56     ` Marcin Borkowski
     [not found]     ` <mailman.2241.1469735551.26859.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-07-28 21:01       ` Rolf Ade
2016-07-28 21:14         ` John Mastro
2016-07-28 21:25           ` Drew Adams
     [not found]           ` <mailman.2253.1469741176.26859.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-07-28 22:27             ` Rolf Ade
     [not found]         ` <mailman.2252.1469740513.26859.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-07-28 21:52           ` Rolf Ade
2016-07-29  1:42         ` Stefan Monnier
2016-07-28  5:12 ` Yuri Khan
     [not found] ` <mailman.2177.1469682795.26859.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-07-28 19:31   ` Rolf Ade

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