Thanks for your contribution, Nathan! I can access the URL below and will look into this when I get a chance. Best regards, Adrian Nathan> On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 07:43:44PM -0500, Adrian.Aichner(a)t-online.de wrote: Nathan> I trace'd all the functions in vc.el and vc-hooks.el for the problem Nathan> description and placed an HTMLized version on the web: Nathan> http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~froydnj/vc-trace-output.html Nathan> replete with headings that hopefully describe the problem. Function Nathan> calls, returns, and the values returned are color-coded. The file is Nathan> about 60K, so you might have to wait for it (school's connection is Nathan> kinda slow). Nathan> The main problem, as I can see, is that in the second `C-x v v', Nathan> vc-file-getprop continually returns nil; it's as though pertinent Nathan> information wasn't saved during vc-register or something similar. The Nathan> third time through, vc-file-getprop returns the correct information. Nathan> I'm not sure why initially registering the file doesn't set the Nathan> information; it appears to get set during the second `C-x v v' in the Nathan> call to vc-backend (call depth 10). But it's too late; we're already Nathan> trying to check the file out. Nathan> In the second call to `C-x v v', the function vc-file-clearprops is Nathan> called (from vc-backend-admin, call depth 8 and 7, respectively); that Nathan> looks suspicious, too. Nathan> The above comments become much clearer after looking at the HTML Nathan> file. :) Nathan> The GNU Emacs (20.7) version of vc.el contains the following line in Nathan> vc-register: Nathan> (setq vc-buffer-backend (vc-backend (buffer-file-name))) Nathan> which looks like it might fix some problems, but I don't think adding it Nathan> last night did anything; I can try again. Nathan> If there's anything else I can do, please let me know. I hope what I've Nathan> done is helpful. Nathan> -- Nathan> </nathan> froydnj(a)rose-hulman.edu | http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~froydnj/ Nathan> Yes, God had a deadline. So He wrote it all in Lisp. -- Adrian Aichner mailto:adrian＠xemacs.org http://www.xemacs.org/