Re: vc-magit mode (was: Re: PROPOSAL: Repurpose one key and reserve it for third-party packages)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@gnu.org>
> Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2021 08:09:45 -0500
> Cc: eric@ericabrahamsen.net, spwhitton@spwhitton.name, rms@gnu.org,
>  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> Here is an idea, a new backend -- vc-magit.  This calls the right
> Magit functions.  The user can then set the prefered backends using
> vc-handled-backends.

Dmitry will tell for sure, but I think adapting Magit to the VC
architecture won't be easy, since Magit is not exactly a backend like
the other ones.  The VC framework might be a kind of Procrustean bed
for Magit.