[debbugs-tracker] bug#20341: closed (Should be easier to start using vc-dwim)

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> Wed, 15 Apr 2015 14:38:18 -0700
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> Currently it's a pain to start using vc-dwim, as one must copy some text 
> from the output of "vc-dwim --help" into a .profile or suchlike file 
> somewhere (where exactly?), and then run the command 
> "git-changelog-symlink-init", and I can't ever remember the name of that 
> command and I'm often logged in somewhere where I don't have the command 
> in my .profile anyway.
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> I suggest extending vc-dwim so that "vc-dwim --init" has the same effect 
> that "git-changelog-symlink-init" does.  This would simplify getting 
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> This topic recently came up on the Emacs developer in a thread starting 
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> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2015-04/msg00760.html
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> On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 10:59 AM, Jim Meyering <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 2:38 PM, Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:
> >> Currently it's a pain to start using vc-dwim, as one must copy some text
> >> from the output of "vc-dwim --help" into a .profile or suchlike file
> >> somewhere (where exactly?), and then run the command
> >> "git-changelog-symlink-init", and I can't ever remember the name of that
> >> command and I'm often logged in somewhere where I don't have the command in
> >> my .profile anyway.
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> >> I suggest extending vc-dwim so that "vc-dwim --init" has the same effect
> >> that "git-changelog-symlink-init" does.  This would simplify getting
> >> started.
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> >> This topic recently came up on the Emacs developer in a thread starting at
> >> here:
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> >> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2015-04/msg00760.html
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> > Hi Paul,
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> > I like that idea, and have written a first-cut implementation.  See
> > attached patch.
> > It does the job, but I have not yet updated documentation or added tests.
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> Thanks again for the suggestion.
> I've added that new option. The change was pushed to this commit:
>   http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/vc-dwim.git/commit/?id=722a0a54d94e8
> I also pushed two other maintenance-style changes.
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