From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Nicolaescu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Backporting changes into emacs-23 prior to pretest Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2010 20:02:00 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87aam38rr0.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1287964934 21133 80.91.229.12 (25 Oct 2010 00:02:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 00:02:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Chong Yidong Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 25 02:02:12 2010 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 1PAAVs-0006vO-Uu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Oct 2010 02:02:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50081 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PAAVs-0005hH-Dh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Oct 2010 20:02:08 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=32829 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PAAVn-0005gN-EP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Oct 2010 20:02:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PAAVm-0000ZC-7G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Oct 2010 20:02:03 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:48012) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PAAVl-0000Z8-Uf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Oct 2010 20:02:02 -0400 Original-Received: from dann by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PAAVk-0008TI-Ty; Sun, 24 Oct 2010 20:02:00 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87aam38rr0.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (Chong Yidong's message of "Sun\, 24 Oct 2010 12\:44\:51 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/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:132073 Archived-At: Chong Yidong writes: > In preparation for the Emacs 23.3 pretest, I'd like to ask everyone if > there are any specific parts of the trunk you'd like to see backported. > The 23.3 release will be mostly bugfixes, so significant new features > will not be considered. However, updated "stable" versions of exsiting > modes and packages should be acceptable. How about this one: ** Directory local variables can apply to file-less buffers. For example, adding "(diff-mode . ((mode . whitespace)))" to your .dir-locals.el file, will turn on `whitespace-mode' for *vc-diff* buffers. The code change itself is small, and only touches one or two functions. How about the changes to make major modes derive from `prog-mode'? [This is not quite finished, but it won't be too hard to finish it...] > (One set of changes that I think would be good to backport are the > improvements to VC since emacs-23 was branched. However, this is > complicated by the fact that the Lisp files have been moved into a vc/ > directory in the trunk, so I'm not sure how to go about merging them. > Does anyone have a suggestion?) Copy the files from trunk over to the branch. AFAIR there's nothing that depends on changes to the core, so just copying should be fine.