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: rcs2log Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 11:41:12 -0400 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20140520154111.GA3992@thyrsus.com> References: <537B7050.5060607@cs.ucla.edu> 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 1400600526 17807 80.91.229.3 (20 May 2014 15:42:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 15:42:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 20 17:42:01 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 1WmmAr-00013B-Ic for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 20 May 2014 17:41:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54129 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WmmAr-0004dz-6n for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 20 May 2014 11:41:53 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34739) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WmmAl-0004bV-60 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 20 May 2014 11:41:51 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WmmAg-0001mQ-VM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 20 May 2014 11:41:47 -0400 Original-Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5]:41569 helo=snark.thyrsus.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WmmAg-0001mD-Sc; Tue, 20 May 2014 11:41:42 -0400 Original-Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 3131A38065E; Tue, 20 May 2014 11:41:12 -0400 (EDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <537B7050.5060607@cs.ucla.edu> 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:171955 Archived-At: Paul Eggert : > >I believe I wrote this a very long time ago > > No, we can't pin this one on you. I wrote it. Looks like you did, yes. I have dim memories of writing something like this as a VC-mode helper for either RCS or SCCS, in order to drastically cut the complexity of the Lisp in the mode. I guess whatever that was got plowed under long ago. -- Eric S. Raymond