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: VC mode and git Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2015 22:01:26 -0400 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20150325020126.GA9853@thyrsus.com> References: <87384tna6c.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> 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 1427248935 30104 80.91.229.3 (25 Mar 2015 02:02:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 02:02:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Stefan Monnier , Richard Stallman To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 25 03:02:06 2015 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 1Yaadv-0001bU-UA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Mar 2015 03:02:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35645 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yaadv-0005fb-9O for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Mar 2015 22:02:03 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53667) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yaads-0005fG-3e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Mar 2015 22:02:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yaado-0005jz-Us for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Mar 2015 22:02:00 -0400 Original-Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5]:42291 helo=snark.thyrsus.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yaado-0005jk-S0; Tue, 24 Mar 2015 22:01:56 -0400 Original-Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 5932DC00A6; Tue, 24 Mar 2015 22:01:26 -0400 (EDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87384tna6c.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) 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:184192 Archived-At: Stephen J. Turnbull : > Perhaps rather than assuming a universal meaning for DWIM, C-x v v > could implement a limited concept of "workflow". Eg, a workflow could > be modeled by a list ((LEXP1 OP1) (LEXP2 OP2) ...), and the workflow > would be implemented something like > > (catch 'done > (mapc (lambda (kv) > (let ((lexp (first kv)) > (op (second kv))) > (if (eval lexp) (throw (funcall op))))))) > > A couple of default workflows could be provided. That sounds like lots of complexity for small gain to me. -- Eric S. Raymond