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: VC Dired Mode doesn't support recursive directory? Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 21:02:44 -0500 Message-ID: References: <200801301559.m0UFxAWt014439@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <200801301800.m0UI02L2000460@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <200801301946.m0UJkeFM021693@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <200801302323.m0UNNQVP008401@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1201744999 27408 80.91.229.12 (31 Jan 2008 02:03:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 02:03:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: William Xu , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dan Nicolaescu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 31 03:03:40 2008 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 1JKOmA-0008Q9-Rd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 03:03:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JKOlj-0004pw-L1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 21:03:11 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JKOlg-0004pZ-AS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 21:03:08 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JKOlf-0004pN-5O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 21:03:07 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JKOlf-0004pK-1w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 21:03:07 -0500 Original-Received: from 206-248-159-121.dsl.teksavvy.com ([206.248.159.121] helo=ceviche.home) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JKOle-0000ha-Df for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 21:03:06 -0500 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id CFAFAB4AB9; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 21:02:44 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <200801302323.m0UNNQVP008401@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> (Dan Nicolaescu's message of "Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:23:21 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:87833 Archived-At: >> But any VC operation is run from a buffer. Either a file buffer or a VC >> buffer. The backend to use should depend on the buffer, not on the (set >> of) file(s). > Well, for vc-dired different files can belong to different backends. If > you are saying that its not a good idea, then we are in complete > agreement. No, I'm saying that in order for VC-dired to make sense when files can belong to several backends, the "current backend" should be per-buffer rather than per-file. So you can have a VC-dired buffer in CVS mode on /foo/bar while having file /foo/bar/baz in another buffer and switching between CVS and RCS backends in that buffer. Stefan