Re: [PATCH] Disable VC when Emacs is noninteractive -batch

[Michael Olson]

David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:

> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> AFAIR, with RCS, when you checkin a file, the work copy is deleted
>> unless you use the -u or -l switch.  So it's quite normal to have no
>> working file at all.
>
> Indeed, ci(1).  Wow, that is really sick.  Anyway, the normal behavior
> for Emacs is to keep locked files around, so I'd say we should cater
> for that case primordinarily.  If that means some slight inconvenience
> in "classical" RCS use from the command line, presumably not getting
> notice of the virtual file presence until checked out, it should be
> something we can live with.
>
> I don't think that many people use RCS from command line and from
> within Emacs interspersed.

In this case, I wouldn't mind if just '(rcs) was bound to
vc-handled-backends when noninteractive, rather than nil.

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