From: "Davis Herring" <herring@lanl.gov>
To: "chad brown" <y@MIT.EDU>
Cc: mwolson@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org,
monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, eliz@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Disable VC when Emacs is noninteractive -batch
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 08:46:19 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <37005.128.165.123.18.1187106379.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DE3536D7-4FD0-4C90-9890-C0771556AC2E@mit.edu>
> I would be leery of having emacs automatically answer any VC
> questions at all -- there are new vc systems being added and
> developed, and it's not hard for me to imagine a (non-emacs-using)
> developer adding a prompt where either `yes' or `no' is the right
> answer most of the time but a destructively wrong answer in some
> rarer cases.
It's not the VC system -- that is, the external program like "cvs" -- that
asks such questions, but rather the VC package in Emacs. There's no risk
that people working on the latter won't be Emacs users and won't (if it's
documented properly!) understand the implications of automatic answers.
Davis
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Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-05 19:39 [PATCH] Disable VC when Emacs is noninteractive -batch Michael Olson
2007-08-05 22:06 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2007-08-06 1:32 ` Michael Olson
2007-08-06 5:20 ` Miles Bader
2007-08-06 2:36 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-08-06 16:33 ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-06 18:07 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-08-07 7:29 ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-07 8:59 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-08-07 20:12 ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-06 20:46 ` Michael Olson
2007-08-06 21:22 ` Jason Rumney
2007-08-07 7:29 ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-07 10:18 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-07 20:12 ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-07 20:46 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-07 11:40 ` Michael Olson
2007-08-08 4:54 ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-08 13:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-08-08 13:29 ` Michael Olson
2007-08-09 5:23 ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-07 15:53 ` Edward O'Connor
2007-08-06 14:19 ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-06 18:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-08-06 19:16 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-07 0:44 ` Miles Bader
2007-08-07 3:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-08-07 6:07 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-07 6:51 ` Michael Olson
2007-08-07 20:11 ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-07 20:42 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-09 0:06 ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-09 0:17 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-11 16:38 ` chad brown
2007-08-12 17:56 ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-15 4:14 ` chad brown
2007-08-16 1:08 ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-14 15:46 ` Davis Herring [this message]
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