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Re: [PATCH] Disable VC when Emacs is noninteractive -batch
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Michael Olson |
Subject: |
Re: [PATCH] Disable VC when Emacs is noninteractive -batch |
Date: |
Sun, 05 Aug 2007 21:32:26 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
Dan Nicolaescu <address@hidden> writes:
> Michael Olson <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > I've noticed lately that VC can behave badly when trying to build
> > one of my Emacs Lisp add-on programs. If a file has been deleted
> > at some point, it will interrupt the build to prompt me about
> > whether to restore it -- this is a show-stopper. Also, even when
> > building Emacs (as of a week ago, at least), VC prints several
> > spurious messages on the console; they are harmless in this case,
> > but nonetheless provide needless clutter.
>
> Were you working with files under bzr? vc-bzr had a bug that Stefan
> fixed recently.
Yes, it happened with vc-bzr.
> If not, can you please describe the problem that you are seeing?
>
> > I think that VC should be disabled by default when emacs is passed
> > the -batch option. The attached patch implements this. Is it OK
> > if I install it? VC is supposed to be for working interactively
> > with version control systems, so I can't see any reason not to
> > install the patch.
>
> If the reason you want to do this to avoid bugs in VC, then IMO this
> is not a good idea. If VC has a problem, it has to be fixed.
That is not the only reason. I want vc disabled when in -batch mode
because it is (1) useless there, (2) delays compilation, and (3)
displays many "loading vc-<system>..." messages that clutter the
compilation output. This bug was just the straw that broke the camel's
back.
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- [PATCH] Disable VC when Emacs is noninteractive -batch, Michael Olson, 2007/08/05
- Re: [PATCH] Disable VC when Emacs is noninteractive -batch, Dan Nicolaescu, 2007/08/05
- Re: [PATCH] Disable VC when Emacs is noninteractive -batch,
Michael Olson <=
- Re: [PATCH] Disable VC when Emacs is noninteractive -batch, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2007/08/05
- Re: [PATCH] Disable VC when Emacs is noninteractive -batch, Richard Stallman, 2007/08/06
- Re: [PATCH] Disable VC when Emacs is noninteractive -batch, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2007/08/06
- Re: [PATCH] Disable VC when Emacs is noninteractive -batch, Richard Stallman, 2007/08/07
- Re: [PATCH] Disable VC when Emacs is noninteractive -batch, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2007/08/07
- Re: [PATCH] Disable VC when Emacs is noninteractive -batch, Richard Stallman, 2007/08/07
- Re: [PATCH] Disable VC when Emacs is noninteractive -batch, Michael Olson, 2007/08/06
- Re: [PATCH] Disable VC when Emacs is noninteractive -batch, Jason Rumney, 2007/08/06
- Re: [PATCH] Disable VC when Emacs is noninteractive -batch, Richard Stallman, 2007/08/07