From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Backporting changes into emacs-23 prior to pretest Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2010 14:39:25 -0400 Message-ID: <87mxpqqmjm.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <87aam38rr0.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1288810240 22979 80.91.229.12 (3 Nov 2010 18:50:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 18:50:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dan Nicolaescu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 03 19:50:35 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PDiPi-0003Q4-Gw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Nov 2010 19:50:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44191 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PDiFK-000144-8k for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Nov 2010 14:39:42 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=40780 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PDiF7-00010K-R6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Nov 2010 14:39:34 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PDiF6-0007uA-ON for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Nov 2010 14:39:29 -0400 Original-Received: from pantheon-po43.its.yale.edu ([130.132.50.104]:52361) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PDiF6-0007tn-Mc; Wed, 03 Nov 2010 14:39:28 -0400 Original-Received: from furball (dhcp128036014027.central.yale.edu [128.36.14.27]) (authenticated bits=0) by pantheon-po43.its.yale.edu (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id oA3IdQ8X014903 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Wed, 3 Nov 2010 14:39:26 -0400 Original-Received: by furball (Postfix, from userid 1000) id DF27A16027C; Wed, 3 Nov 2010 14:39:25 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Dan Nicolaescu's message of "Sun, 24 Oct 2010 20:02:00 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-YaleITSMailFilter: Version 1.2c (attachment(s) not renamed) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:132330 Archived-At: Dan Nicolaescu writes: > How about this one: > ** Directory local variables can apply to file-less buffers. > For example, adding "(diff-mode . ((mode . whitespace)))" to your > .dir-locals.el file, will turn on `whitespace-mode' for *vc-diff* buffers. > The code change itself is small, and only touches one or two > functions. I don't think this is a good candidate for backporting, but if you feel strongly about it, we can discuss more. > How about the changes to make major modes derive from `prog-mode'? > [This is not quite finished, but it won't be too hard to finish it...] These is mostly a cleanup, right? I don't think it's worth backporting either. >> (One set of changes that I think would be good to backport are the >> improvements to VC since emacs-23 was branched. However, this is >> complicated by the fact that the Lisp files have been moved into a vc/ >> directory in the trunk, so I'm not sure how to go about merging them. >> Does anyone have a suggestion?) > > Copy the files from trunk over to the branch. AFAIR there's nothing > that depends on changes to the core, so just copying should be fine. OK, I've done this. Thanks.