Re: [SOLVED for GNU]
Removing Thi from the CC list; he'll see it on emacs-devel.
Uwe Brauer writes:
> This looks incorrect, if 1.y is your trunk, and x.y for x
> 1 are
> branches. In that case you should change the regexp to
> "\\`1\\.[0-9]+\\'".
Well that is not part of the hack but part of GNU Emacs vc.el.
Just in case I put Thien and Emacs-devel in the CC, in case your comment
is relevant for the general case.
No, it's not.
I'm not sure what the general case looks like for RCS (or even if
there is one, any more -- I'm sure there are a lot of people who still
use RCS for one reason or another but I bet they have a million
different conventions for version numbering).
> There's nothing in the implementation you posted that
wouldn't work in
> XEmacs AFAICS. I suspect that XEmacs vc just doesn't find the new
> function. Try naming the function "vc-rcs-previous-version" instead
> and see if XEmacs calls it properly.
That is odd, I tried it several times and got an error about number of
arguments, however now it *works*. I keep and eye on that.
Good. It doesn't really surprise me that it took a few tries.
Because of the way that vc.el manages its various engines, you might
have to switch to another one then back to RCS, or kill a buffer and
reread the file, or ..., to get the new function insinuated.
Let us know if it decides to fail again.
Thanks all of you for your help, but I presume this function will not
be
included in any official vc version?
I don't see why not. Although the difference between "parent" and
"head of previous branch" is important, since RCS doesn't know about
parents as far as I can see, "head of previous branch" seems like a
good approximation.
Emacs may have a different opinion, of course.
_______________________________________________
XEmacs-Beta mailing list
XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org
http://lists.xemacs.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta