Re: vc-state-heuristic is gone

[David Kastrup]

"Eric S. Raymond" <address@hidden> writes:

> David Kastrup <address@hidden>:
>> If I get a VC call across an ssh link for every keystroke I make in some
>> Tramp-edited buffer because the modeline wants to display the non-cached
>> current branch I am on, this is not going to lead to happy editing.
>
> Why do you suppose this could ever occur?  There is not and never has been 
> any VC code that fires on an ordinary keystroke - that is, one that is not
> bound as a VC command.

I have not looked at the code but at your argument.  Your argument was
that computers these days are faster and consequently you do not need
caching any more.  But accessing information through an ssh connection
may well be slower than getting it from floppy disk.  Granted, NFS files
will tend to be used mostly in settings where reasonable throughput may
be expected.  At any rate, Emacs offers a lot regarding remote access
and thus a rationale based on local disk speed alone is not covering
all.

-- 
David Kastrup