From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: chad brown Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Disable VC when Emacs is noninteractive -batch Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2007 09:38:48 -0700 Message-ID: References: <87lkcpkbzc.fsf@hariken.mwolson.org> <85odhkfp7n.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <86zm13andn.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <85y7gndqkt.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <85y7glo91t.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1186850419 21598 80.91.229.12 (11 Aug 2007 16:40:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2007 16:40:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, mwolson@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 11 18:40:15 2007 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 4.50) id 1IJu0d-0001BO-4R for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Aug 2007 18:40:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IJu0c-0004ix-K2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Aug 2007 12:40:14 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IJu0Z-0004gF-B2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Aug 2007 12:40:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IJu0Y-0004fa-O9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Aug 2007 12:40:10 -0400 Original-Received: from biscayne-one-station.mit.edu ([18.7.7.80]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IJu0Y-0003cQ-ED; Sat, 11 Aug 2007 12:40:10 -0400 Original-Received: from outgoing.mit.edu (OUTGOING-AUTH.MIT.EDU [18.7.22.103]) by biscayne-one-station.mit.edu (8.13.6/8.9.2) with ESMTP id l7BGe5Lg004031; Sat, 11 Aug 2007 12:40:05 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.100.136] ([12.198.8.203]) (authenticated bits=0) (User authenticated as yandros@ATHENA.MIT.EDU) by outgoing.mit.edu (8.13.6/8.12.4) with ESMTP id l7BGdgME014533 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT); Sat, 11 Aug 2007 12:39:50 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <85y7glo91t.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.42 X-Spam-Score: 0.00 X-Detected-Kernel: Solaris 9 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:76360 Archived-At: Anecdotal evidence here, but: These days, my primary use of RCS is to keep copies of files (with history) that I no longer want in my working directories. I occasionally examine these files, but it's pretty rare - basically a warm archive, with history. 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. *chad On Aug 8, 2007, at 5:17 PM, David Kastrup wrote: > Richard Stallman writes: > >> Sorry, but I really don't think Emacs should create non- >> existing files >> without being asked for it. >> >> The point is, with RCS, these files are not really nonexistent. > > We have to agree to disagree on that point.