From: "Dr Francis J. Wright" <F.J.Wright@qmul.ac.uk>
Cc: <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [F.J.Wright@qmul.ac.uk: rcs2log]
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 10:36:41 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <002501c28000$4e93ce60$3a50258a@maths.qmul.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 200210291922.g9TJMD918275@rum.cs.yale.edu
From: "Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu>
To: "Dr Francis J. Wright" <F.J.Wright@qmul.ac.uk>
Cc: "Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu>; "Juanma
Barranquero" <lektu@terra.es>; "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@is.elta.co.il>;
<emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 7:22 PM
Subject: Re: [F.J.Wright@qmul.ac.uk: rcs2log]
> There's a subtle difference: hexl-mode is completely unusable without the
> `hexl' program, whereas VC is fully functional even without rcs2log.
> I.e. support for rcs2log is an added feature to VC, but it is not the
> main purpose of VC.
OK. Point taken.
> I think modifying vc.el is completely wrong. Right now vc.el doesn't know
> anything about rcs2log apart from some arguments it can take and what
> things it might output. It doesn't know it's written in `sh', it doesn't
> know it uses `sort'. And indeed, rcs2log might be rewritten in Perl
> some day and stop using `sort' and `sh'.
If anyone were going to rewrite rcs2log then I would suggest it should be
rewritten in Emacs Lisp. Bit it's probably not worth the effort.
> Also rcs2log is actually not particularly linked to Emacs (which
> is why it's also distributed along with CVS), so any fix for w32
> should allow it to work correctly even when it's not run from Emacs.
>
> > I'll think about these two options and see whether I can produce a
solution
> > that people find more acceptable than my original rcs2log.bat solution.
>
> I think an rcs2log.bat wrapper is the right approach, I believe.
> I actually haven't seen any disagreement with it. The only problem
> mentioned so far has to do with `sort' which is basically unrelated
> to the problem at hand (except for the fact that it is related to the
> same script and to the same platform).
I agree, which is why I proposed the wrapper approach in the first place.
Any customization can be done with environment rather than Lisp variables.
I will send a revised version that does that shortly.
Francis
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-30 10:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-26 20:16 [F.J.Wright@qmul.ac.uk: rcs2log] Richard Stallman
2002-10-28 16:57 ` Juanma Barranquero
2002-10-28 17:30 ` Juanma Barranquero
2002-10-29 6:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-10-29 7:30 ` Juanma Barranquero
2002-10-29 10:21 ` Dr Francis J. Wright
2002-10-29 10:28 ` Juanma Barranquero
2002-10-29 14:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-10-29 15:07 ` Juanma Barranquero
2002-10-29 15:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-10-29 15:37 ` Juanma Barranquero
2002-10-29 15:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-10-29 17:06 ` Dr Francis J. Wright
2002-10-29 19:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-10-29 19:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-10-30 10:36 ` Dr Francis J. Wright [this message]
2002-10-31 17:25 ` Richard Stallman
2002-10-29 19:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-10-30 10:59 ` Dr Francis J. Wright
[not found] ` <200210301600.g9UG0VT22546@rum.cs.yale.edu>
2002-10-30 16:51 ` rcs2log.bat Dr Francis J. Wright
2002-10-29 19:47 ` [F.J.Wright@qmul.ac.uk: rcs2log] Eli Zaretskii
2002-10-30 10:29 ` Dr Francis J. Wright
2002-10-29 16:36 ` Dr Francis J. Wright
2002-10-29 16:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-10-29 17:10 ` Dr Francis J. Wright
2002-10-29 19:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-10-30 7:43 ` Juanma Barranquero
2002-10-30 14:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-10-30 14:41 ` Juanma Barranquero
2002-11-02 12:01 ` Francesco Potorti`
2002-10-31 17:26 ` Richard Stallman
2002-10-30 17:16 ` Richard Stallman
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to='002501c28000$4e93ce60$3a50258a@maths.qmul.ac.uk' \
--to=f.j.wright@qmul.ac.uk \
--cc=emacs-devel@gnu.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this external index
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.