From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eric S. Raymond" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Mopre fun with vcswitness Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 16:02:16 -0500 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20140112210216.GA19486@thyrsus.com> References: <20140112200736.C29B33811D4@snark.thyrsus.com> <87zjn1ar8z.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <20140112203140.GA19193@thyrsus.com> <87vbxpapxw.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1389560577 9006 80.91.229.3 (12 Jan 2014 21:02:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 21:02:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 12 22:03:05 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W2SBU-0005Ix-Vk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Jan 2014 22:03:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39453 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W2SBU-0004KD-JA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Jan 2014 16:03:04 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59104) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W2SBO-0004K8-9H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jan 2014 16:03:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W2SBJ-0005u8-SM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jan 2014 16:02:58 -0500 Original-Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5]:60001 helo=snark.thyrsus.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W2SBD-0005tr-9M; Sun, 12 Jan 2014 16:02:47 -0500 Original-Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B31523811D4; Sun, 12 Jan 2014 16:02:16 -0500 (EST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87vbxpapxw.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 71.162.243.5 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:168242 Archived-At: David Kastrup : > Where "putatively" means what _you_ remember being identical. I already > opined that I consider it most likely you forgot a \ in your added code, > leading to different shell instances defining and printing vcswitness. No, whatever other mistakes I may have made, that wasn't one of them. The aligned column of backslashes off to the right is helpful that way. I've been *very* aware of them the whole time. It would probably be a good idea for somebody tp put a permanent line of instrumentation in there so we all know we're seeing the sane report. -- Eric S. Raymond