Re: New vc and Mercurial (hg)?

On Friday 02 November 2007, FKtPp wrote: Even though the behaviour is unexpected at times, neither of the above are actually bugs. The new vc package's Mercurial support comes from mercurial.el which is a "standalone" Mercurial support mode with similar functionality as vc, but it's not a real vc backend, so not all vc related features are available with it. For example, in the above scenario 1, ediff uses various vc-* functions, and since those know nothing about mercurial.el, the result is that as far as they're concerned, the file is not under version control. Ditto "C-x v v" in scenario 2 - that's still bound to vc-next-action even when viewing a Mercurial controlled file (mercurial.el doesn't map that sequence to anything), and vc-next-action doesn't know about mercurial.el so it picks its fallback action which supposedly is to register the file in RCS. At the time I was looking for Mercurial support for XEmacs, mercurial.el was practically the only "production ready" thing or even close to it that I could find. Nowadays there's a real mercurial backend (vc-hg.el) in GNU Emacs CVS; I haven't looked at what it offers, but it's under GPLv3+ so I don't think we could import it into the XEmacs packages tree currently anyway. _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta