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Alan Mackenzie wrote:

> I didn't put anything into my .emacs to enable VC.  The manual (Emacs
> info, page "Version Control") doesn't seem to say how to disable it.
> What do I have to put into my .emacs to do this?

(setq vc-handled-backends nil)

will disable VC. This variable is mentioned in the "Customizing VC"
node of the manual, although it doesn't explicitly say how to turn
off VC altogether with it. Its docstring does though.