From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#7350: 24.0.50; make vc-deduce-backend smarter Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 08:48:30 -0500 Message-ID: References: <19669.54304.980911.220632@rgr.rgrjr.com> <19671.7412.608640.593137@rgr.rgrjr.com> <19672.26151.150217.308712@rgr.rgrjr.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1289571250 8762 80.91.229.12 (12 Nov 2010 14:14:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 14:14:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 7350@debbugs.gnu.org To: Bob Rogers Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 12 15:14:06 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@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 1PGuOD-0007jy-KM for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Nov 2010 15:14:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54710 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PGuOC-0003vF-BE for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Nov 2010 09:14:04 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=43167 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PGuO6-0003u2-Oe for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Nov 2010 09:13:59 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PGuO5-0006sU-OF for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Nov 2010 09:13:58 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:56907) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PGuO5-0006sF-ME for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Nov 2010 09:13:57 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PGtv8-0005PZ-0L; Fri, 12 Nov 2010 08:44:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Stefan Monnier Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-To: owner@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 13:44:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 7350 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 7350-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B7350.128956942420795 (code B ref 7350); Fri, 12 Nov 2010 13:44:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 7350) by debbugs.gnu.org; 12 Nov 2010 13:43:44 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PGtuq-0005PM-5h for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 12 Nov 2010 08:43:44 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181] helo=ironport2-out.pppoe.ca) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PGtuo-0005PG-L2 for 7350@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 12 Nov 2010 08:43:43 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AnAGAJrU3ExMCpqE/2dsb2JhbAChV3lyvj6FSgSEWo1f X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.59,188,1288584000"; d="scan'208";a="82331635" Original-Received: from 76-10-154-132.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([76.10.154.132]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 12 Nov 2010 08:48:30 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 6BE1CA86F8; Fri, 12 Nov 2010 08:48:30 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <19672.26151.150217.308712@rgr.rgrjr.com> (Bob Rogers's message of "Mon, 8 Nov 2010 16:05:43 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 08:44:02 -0500 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:41512 Archived-At: > It can definitely be generalized, but I'd rather stick to buffers where > there's a clear association with a particular file or directory. > E.g. *Help* buffers aren't good candidates. > Fair enough. Seems odd that default-directory is not nil for these. There are all kinds of reasons why we don't like default-directory to be nil. > Works for me. It doesn't cover the cases where I'm looking at a > generated file, or test output, but (in my workflow anyway) those cases > are rarer. I've installed the patch into the trunk (i.e. not for Emacs-23.3 but Emacs-24) and added compilation-mode to shell-mode, since it's also clearly linked to a particular location in the file-system. > This was the result of a trade-off (get rid of one RET since it's > almost never used). But I guess we could/should prompt the user for > a file/dir rather than signal "File is not under version control" or > some such error. > That would be much nicer, especially since the underlying functionality > (i.e. support for vc-diff of directories) still works. Patch welcome. > P.S. I mailed the signed copyright assignment today, so FSF should have > it tomorrow. Great (tho, OT1H I can't remember for which patch this is, and OTOH the FSF itself usually takes a little while to process those mail). Stefan