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

[chad brown]

Anecdotal evidence here, but:

These days, my primary use of RCS is to keep copies of files (with  
history) that I no longer want in my working directories.  I  
occasionally examine these files, but it's pretty rare - basically a  
warm archive, with history.

I would be leery of having emacs automatically answer any VC  
questions at all -- there are new vc systems being added and  
developed, and it's not hard for me to imagine a (non-emacs-using)  
developer adding a prompt where either `yes' or `no' is the right  
answer most of the time but a destructively wrong answer in some  
rarer cases.

*chad

On Aug 8, 2007, at 5:17 PM, David Kastrup wrote:

> Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
>
> >     Sorry, but I really don't think Emacs should create non- 
> > existing files
> >     without being asked for it.
> >
> > The point is, with RCS, these files are not really nonexistent.
>
> We have to agree to disagree on that point.