From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: New function: vc-ediff Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 17:35:14 -0400 Message-ID: References: <4D785193.3030201@gmail.com> <4D79A736.6080707@gmail.com> <831v2cu40y.fsf@gnu.org> <838vwkrroz.fsf@gnu.org> <83y64irjaq.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1300052133 3617 80.91.229.12 (13 Mar 2011 21:35:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 21:35:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Uday S Reddy , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 13 22:35:28 2011 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 1Pyswi-00020M-7i for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 13 Mar 2011 22:35:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38901 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pyswh-00014o-FX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 13 Mar 2011 17:35:27 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=39483 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PyswX-000144-Lb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Mar 2011 17:35:18 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PyswW-0003x3-Ib for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Mar 2011 17:35:17 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:22429 helo=ironport2-out.pppoe.ca) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PyswV-0003wD-50; Sun, 13 Mar 2011 17:35:15 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AvsEAOvUfE3O+IG+/2dsb2JhbACmFXjAEoViBJVM X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.62,312,1297054800"; d="scan'208";a="96196458" Original-Received: from 206-248-129-190.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([206.248.129.190]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 13 Mar 2011 17:35:14 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 18E3D58ED9; Sun, 13 Mar 2011 17:35:14 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <83y64irjaq.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sun, 13 Mar 2011 20:01:49 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.181 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:137199 Archived-At: >> > What, you mean I cannot see the diffs against a previous version of a >> > file unless I run vc-dir on its directory? >> The proposed vc-ediff works when visiting any version-controlled file. > What if I don't visit a version-controlled file, and still want to > compare some file against some of its versions? As mentioned, this is just as true of vc-diff as of vc-ediff, so file a bug-report against vc-diff if you think that's a problem. Personally I think that vc-dir is a perfectly acceptable solution. Stefan