Re: turning off VC?

[Robert Marshall <spam@chezmarshall.freeserve.co.uk>]

On Mon, 03 Feb 2003, kevin.rodgers@ihs.com wrote:

> Steve Summit wrote:
> 
>> At any rate, the error messages are distracting and a real
>> nuisance.  Is there any way to tell emacs *not* to look for RCS
>> subdirectories and corresponding ,v files, and *not* to attempt
>> to invoke any RCS commands automatically?
> 
> (remove-hook 'find-file-hooks 'vc-find-file-hook)
> (remove-hook 'find-file-not-found-hooks 'vc-file-not-found-hook)
> 

As another way

> vc-handled-backends's value is (CVS RCS SCCS)


> *List of version control backends for which VC will be used.
> Entries in this list will be tried in order to determine whether a
> file is under that sort of version control.
> Removing an entry from the list prevents VC from being activated
> when visiting a file managed by that backend.
> An empty list disables VC altogether.

Though I think vc-handled-backends was only introduced in emacs 21, so
it might not solve the OP's problem

R
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