From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: mail.vjrao@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org,
Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>, "rms@gnu.org" <rms@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: TODO
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:03:09 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200802261903.m1QJ39Ua013652@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvk5krble3.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:54:50 -0500")
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> 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.
> >>
> >> 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.
Yep, the problem is the undo-list. Please do that if you think it's
better/easier. (I know nothing about that code, to can't help there... :-()
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-26 19:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-23 17:26 Looking for a new Emacs maintainer or team Vijay Rao
2008-02-24 0:54 ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-24 16:12 ` Vijay Rao
2008-02-24 23:04 ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-25 3:59 ` Vijay Rao
2008-02-25 4:45 ` TODO [was Re: Looking for a new Emacs maintainer or team] Nick Roberts
2008-02-26 15:33 ` V.Rao
2008-02-26 18:13 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-02-26 18:26 ` TODO Stefan Monnier
2008-02-26 18:48 ` TODO Dan Nicolaescu
2008-02-26 18:54 ` TODO Stefan Monnier
2008-02-26 19:03 ` Dan Nicolaescu [this message]
2008-02-26 23:08 ` TODO Miles Bader
2008-02-26 23:23 ` TODO Dan Nicolaescu
2008-02-27 0:08 ` TODO Miles Bader
2008-02-27 1:17 ` TODO Dan Nicolaescu
2008-02-27 2:56 ` TODO Miles Bader
2008-02-27 16:07 ` TODO Richard Stallman
2008-02-27 20:45 ` TODO Stefan Monnier
2008-02-28 16:41 ` TODO Richard Stallman
2008-02-28 17:09 ` TODO [was Re: Looking for a new Emacs maintainer or team] V.Rao
2008-02-29 1:39 ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-28 2:00 ` Xavier Maillard
2008-02-28 16:20 ` TODO Michael Albinus
2008-02-28 17:08 ` TODO Dan Nicolaescu
2008-02-28 17:35 ` TODO Stefan Monnier
2008-02-28 20:39 ` TODO Michael Albinus
2008-02-28 23:23 ` TODO Evans Winner
2008-02-29 4:52 ` TODO Dan Nicolaescu
2008-02-29 7:58 ` TODO Michael Albinus
2008-03-01 1:00 ` TODO Xavier Maillard
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