From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: tromey@redhat.com
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: some vc-dir notes
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 23:46:38 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvod867bmy.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3ve2eojcn.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (Tom Tromey's message of "Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:04:40 -0600")
> Based on the help for "=" I expected an easy way to make a diff of the
> entire directory. I couldn't figure this out. I can mark files and
> do it, but I was hoping for something simpler.
Adding directory entries in the display is being worked on.
The "." entry will allow applying a command to the whole tree.
> If I type "=" outside the content area of the buffer, I still get a
> result.
If it does, it's a hack. An explicit "." entry sounds much better.
> If I type '=' on an unregistered file I get:
> require(vc-nil)
[...]
> IMO it should just use whatever backend is displayed at the top of the
> buffer. In fact, using a different backend for any operation would
> seem weird.
Yes, it's a bug I already pointed out: the backend to use should not be
associated with the file-name (as is currently the case) but should just
be a buffer-local variable.
This might require a fairly large change, tho.
Stefan
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2008-04-18 23:04 some vc-dir notes Tom Tromey
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