From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: A vc wish: vc-timemachine Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2022 07:59:46 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83a65w5o91.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="9698"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: John Yates Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 18 14:15:36 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oklVN-0002Fw-Fe for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 18 Oct 2022 14:15:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44186 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oklVK-0001YT-4p for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 18 Oct 2022 08:15:30 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:37050) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oklG8-0001G1-K0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Oct 2022 07:59:55 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:53360) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oklG6-0003y8-Rw; Tue, 18 Oct 2022 07:59:47 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=g9dCAQaiaAxZVC0dK6VkR/hw0+H6TBjaBBIzoqwjKeY=; b=VY/52GWhQuxx R7nOtxOoyjYZVg4RlhXbxG1GJvwdPcxuDRxfQTNx9R3d+DUh3fNXTca/JwVrl9HKXh75ILbjDZVb4 v8yaoeMA1N89lWNdJu6aZNYY2vep/ENlDfOYbUF4IwdZaDVbgj2S2X0NzbbBW97igeFq1OW7tcIGA tFBlLgB83kFSvENd0EHrmVET/reY7exWveWLm2nSxvcBG6yXahQnZIspKo22jBQZfwRvWDrjaqXrh UmNThS6gMBXCWTaPGk54q6d+kGRbETWCLDYOdoIwYMiF+DDlfgM/pijq7rKujC784GG/wJiprXBss RZ4+p32clCADyBoyVT/sDA==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oklG6-0007b8-2R; Tue, 18 Oct 2022 07:59:46 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from John Yates on Sun, 16 Oct 2022 07:49:19 -0400) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:298033 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > git-timemachine is more akin to a non-existent > vc-revision-same-window. It is a minor mode applied to a buffer > visiting a version controlled file. It renders that buffer readonly > and then allows one to 'scroll' backward and forward over that file's > linear history, always showing a fully reconstructed revision, reusing > a single buffer. That is a nice feature, but it should not be limited to git repos. Can you use the existing repo-sw-independent VC primitives to do this job? -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)